Braves Lead 6-4; Piazza Gets a Measure of Revenge; Jacobs Follows in Kind

In the top of the secventh inning, the Braves lead the Mets 6-4, on a leadoff home run by second baseman Marcus Giles, off Mets reliever Shingo Takatsu. In the bottom of the fourth inning, Mets catcher Mike Piazza hit Tim Hudson's first pitch deep into the visitors' bullpen, to cut the Braves' lead to two runs. That was a measure of revenge for Piazza, who in the first inning was robbed of a two-run, two-out, bases-loaded single by the second base umpire, who ruled that Andruw Jones had caught Piazza's low liner, which in fact Jones had trapped. Mets' rookie Mike Jacobs smashed Hudson's next pitch out to right field, for his sixth home run. That cut the Braves' lead to one run.