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The Bench Mob freaking does it again.

Tomás Nido’s solo home run with two outs in the ninth gave the Mets a 4-3 lead, which Edwin Diaz nailed down with his second save in as many days to give the Mets another win over the Braves.

With injuries compounding over the last two weeks, the Mets have been left scrambling to fill roster spots. Just has it has been the last month or so, though, the bench and back ups came through.

A tight ballgame, completed in less than two hours and 40 minutes, the Mets held one- and two-run leads for much of the night after Jonathan Villar got things going with a two-run home run in the third inning.

The Mets relied on their bullpen to get through tonight’s game, too, because the starting pitching staff has not been spared of injury, either.

Miguel Castro got the start and shut down the top of the Braves order in the first, particularly with his slider. He struck out Ronald Acuña and got Marcel Ozuna to ground out weakly with the pitch.

Tommy Hunter followed with two scoreless innings. That’s his fourth scoreless appearance of two innings so far this year. He’s allowed just four hits and three walks over those eight innings.

However, that wasn’t the best part of Hunter’s night.

Hunter notched his first hit in his 14th big-league season. (Granted, it came in his fifth career plate appearance.) He was calling for the ball to keep before he even got to first base. The hit became even more important, as it brought Villar to the plate with a man on. That’s when Villar went yard.

Robert Gsellman (two innings) and Trevor May (one inning) each gave up a solo home run but nothing more significant–nor lead-blowing–in their appearances. Aaron Loup also delivered a solid seventh inning, but the eighth is where things got dicey.

Loup came back out to start the inning against the pitcher’s spot so the Braves would select Ehire Adrianza to pinch hit rather than Pablo Sandoval–a pinch-hit menace so far this year. They did, and Adrianza promptly hustled for a double. Jeurys Familia came in and walked Acuña but induced a double play from Freddie Freeman bringing up Marcel Ozuna with two outs and a man on third.

Ozuna then broke Mets’ bats and their hearts (hat tip to Chip Caray) and dunked a single into right field on a jam shot that scored Adrianza to the game at 3.

That only lasted for a couple minutes, though (a nanosecond in Mets Land, really), because Nido put the Mets back up top with the team’s biggest home run of the year–it came in a tie game on the road against their biggest NL East competition–to put the Mets up for good.

They now secured a series road win against the Braves and will go for a sweep in Wednesday’s series finale.

The Mets return to having a regular starter on the mound as David Peterson will toe the rubber tomorrow. He’s coming off the longest (and maybe best) start of his career after going 7.1 innings against the Rays on Friday.

Peterson has a 4.69 ERA in six career starts with normal four-day rest. (His ERA drops to 2.86 with five days’ rest.) He’ll be pitching on normal rest tomorrow.

He’ll be facing off against 37-year-old righty Charlie Morton, who is 2-2 with a 5.08 ERA in his 14th big-league season.

With an off day Thursday and a series with the Marlins starting Friday, it would be a boon to lock down a sweep of the Braves as injured as the Mets are now.

The team is taking it day-by-day, and the hope is the injury drain has been plugged after a (seemingly) healthy night Tuesday. How they’ve played the last two nights is all you can ask for as the team is now hopefully on the mend.