PITCHING PROBABLES: Braves: Didier Fuentes (0-1, 7.20 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, three strikeouts); Mets: Clay Holmes (7-4, 3.04 ERA, 1.23 WHIP, 73 strikeouts) BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets play the Atlanta Braves as losers of three straight games.

The Braves tee off on the Mets in the sixth inning, putting up five runs to take a 5-3 lead. ESPN BET Sportsbook is owned and operated by PENN Entertainment, Inc. and its subsidiaries ('PENN'). ESPN BET is available in states where PENN is licensed to offer sports wagering.

The Mets wasted five shutout innings from Frankie Montas as the bullpen turned in a calamitous sixth inning in a 7-4 loss to the Braves on Tuesday.

In the ninth, the Mets showed some signs of life. Ronny Mauricio drove in a run on a double down the right field line to bring in the fourth Met run of the game, but it wasn’t enough to stop the Braves from taking their fifth straight from the Mets.

RHP Frankie Montas, 32, has been reinstated from the 15-day IL (lat strain) and is set to make his Mets debut Tuesday night against the Braves.

The Atlanta Braves and New York Mets continue their four-game series Tuesday, with first pitch for the second contest of the series set for 7:10 p.m. ET on TBS. The Braves won the series opener 3-2 thanks to a stellar pitching performance from Spencer Schwellenbach,

It’s Tuesday, June 24 and the Braves (36-41) are in Queens to take on the Mets (46-33). Spencer Strider is slated to take the mound for Atlanta against Frankie Montas for New York.

The Braves have long tormented New York, although the Mets had signaled that maybe times were going to change with a dramatic win at Atlanta to clinch a playoff berth late last season. New York took control of the division for the first two-plus months of the season while the Braves tried to climb out of a hole that was dug with an 0-7 start.