NEW YORK _ Brian Snitker's Braves rarely go quietly these days, even after trailing by multiple runs late in games against playoff contenders. Just ask the Mets, who got swept Wednesday on a game that ended in spectacular fashion on an Ender Inciarte game-saving catch.
The Braves came back from a 3-0 deficit after six innings to beat _ and sweep _ the Mets with a 4-3 win at Citi Field, the sixth consecutive win for Atlanta at Citi Field since Snitker took over as interim manager May 17.
The game ended with a terrific catch by Inciarte, who sprinted to the center-field wall and leaped, robbing Yoenis Cespedes of a would-be three-run walk-off homer.
The way they're playing, Snitker might shed that interim tag before much longer. They have a five-game winning streak against the Nationals and Mets and improved to 13-8 in their past 21 games and 24-23 since Matt Kemp joined the team Aug. 2.
Kemp drove in the tying run Wednesday with a sacrifice fly on a nine-pitch at-bat in the eighth inning, and Inciarte's groundout in the ninth brought in the go-ahead run, after singles by Jace Peterson and pinch-hitter Emilio Bonifacio sandwiched around a Dansby Swanson sacrifice bunt.
The Braves have swept both of their three-game series at Citi Field since Snitker replaced fired manager Fredi Gonzalez, and Atlanta won the season series with the Mets, 10-9.
They finished this series off with a win despite falling behind 2-0 in the first inning against Bartolo Colon.
Rookie Ryan Weber, in his second start this season, walked Mets leadoff man Jose Reyes on four pitches in the first inning and gave up a homer to the next batter, Asdrubal Cabrera. Before Weber recorded an out, the Braves were down 2-0 against 43-year-old Colon.
Down 3-0 after a Rene Rivera homer off Weber in the fourth inning, the Braves came roaring back on Anthony Recker's two-run homer in the seventh and Kemp's sacrifice fly in the eighth.
Braves relievers Chaz Roe and Ian Krol turned back a prime Mets scoring opportunity in the eighth, after a Yoenis Cespedes one-out double off Brandon Cunniff. Curtis Granderson was intentionally walked before Roe entered and struck out T.J. Rivera with two runners in scoring position after a double-steal.
Eric Campbell was walked intentionally to load the bases before Krol struck out pinch-hitter Kevin Plawecki. Krol slapped his glove as he bounded off the mound to the dugout after the big out.
The Mets came into the game in a three-way tie for the National Lead wild-card lead with the Giants and Cardinals, with the Marlins four games back. The Braves starts a four-game series Thursday in Miami, their final road series before closing the season _ and Turner Field _ with a six-game homestand against the Phillies and Tigers.
Freddie Freeman's fourth-inning single extended his hitting streak to 25 games and his on-base streak to 41 games, both career bests and the longest active streaks in the majors. The on-base streak is the second-longest in the majors this season and third-longest in Atlanta franchise history, behind Gary Sheffield's 52-game streak on 2002 and Dale Murphy's 48-gamer in 1987.
Colon had a four-hit shutout going until the seventh inning, when Nick Markakis singled with one out and Recker followed with a long home run, his second of the season. The veteran catcher spent the past three seasons in the Mets organization and caught Colon 17 times during the 2014-2015 seasons.
Weber settled down after the Cabrera homer and allowed four hits (two home runs), two walks and three runs with three strikeouts in five innings. He didn't give up another hit until the fourth inning and the Mets didn't score again after the first inning until Rene Rivera's one-out homer in the fifth.
The Braves also extended their streak of games with eight or more hits to 21, the longest single-season streak in Atlanta franchise history. The only longer by an Atlanta-era team was a 22-gamer that spanned parts of the 1969-1970 seasons.
