Max Fried outpitched Jacob Degrom , ever so slightly, in a matchup of aces and rookie Michael Harris II bounced a go-ahead double in the seventh inning that sent Atlanta over New York 3-2 on Thursday night, as they took three of four in the series, and now trail the Mets by 3.5 games in the standings.
Braves rookie Vaughn Grissom went all the way from first base to score on Harris’ grounder to shallow center field.
Fried (11-4, 2.60 ERA) lasted seven innings, giving up two runs and four hits with no walks and six strikeouts.
DeGrom (2-1, 2.31ERA) allowed five hits and three runs with no walks and nine strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings.
Grissom beat out an infield single with two outs in the seventh, forcing out Degrom and the hand of Seth Lugo from the bullpen. Harris tapped a a grounder up the middle that split a pair of New York infielders and Grissom, running hard the whole way, beat the throw to the plate with a head-first slide.
Kenley Jansen escaped trouble to earn his 27th save.
Lindor singled to begin the ninth and was trying to steal as Pete Alonso hit a blooper to right-center field. Lindor had already slid head-first into second when he saw the ball and, thinking it would be caught, retreated in a hurry back to first.
But the ball dropped among three fielders and Lindor, most of the way back, could only watch as right fielder Ronald Acuña Jr. picked it up and tossed to second for an easy forceout.
Jansen struck out Daniel Vogelbach, and pinch-runner Deven Marrero stole second with Jeff McNeil batting. McNeil grounded out to Jansen to end it.
The Mets made it 2-all in the fifth when Mark Canha hit his eighth homer, a two-run drive.
Fried, who came off the injured list after missing the last nine games with a concussion, allowed his first hit when Canha doubled to begin the third. Canha advanced to third on rookie Brett Baty’s single with no out, but Fried escaped the jam with a pair of strikeouts and a groundout. Since becoming a full-time starter in 2019, Fried has 49 wins, second-most in the majors to the Yankees’ Gerrit Cole with 52 over that span.
DeGrom, in his fourth start since injuries made him miss nearly 13 months, gave up a two-out single to Austin Riley in the first and a one-out single to Robbie Grossman in the third. Dansby Swanson doubled home Grossman for a 1-0 lead. Riley then drove in Swanson with a single.
DeGrom retired his next 12 batters before Grissom reached in the seventh.
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