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		<description>RUWT? News for New York Mets vs. Atlanta Braves 5/22/2007</description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Jones, Davies lead Braves to easy win over Mets]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA (Ticker) -- Andruw Jones and Kyle Davies helped 
continue the Atlanta Braves' dominance of the New York Mets.

Jones snapped out of an 0-for-14 slump with an RBI single in the
second inning and Davies hurled eight solid innings and homered
to power the Braves to an 8-1 rout of the Mets.

Atlanta returned from a disappointing 4-6 road trip that dropped
them 2 1/2 games  behind first-place New York in the National
League East Division.  But luckily for the Braves, the Mets were
coming to town.

Having taken four of six against their archrival, the Braves had
won two out of three in both series in New York and Atlanta.
Facing former teammate Jorge Sosa (3-1), Jeff Francoeur and
Jones wasted no time making it five of seven.

"Every game against the Mets is big," Davies said. "We don't
want to fall too far behind.  We need to do whatever we can
against them right now."

Brian McCann led off the second with a single and scored when
the red-hot Francoeur, who batted .533 (8-for-15) with a homer
in the weekend series with Boston, laced a double down the right
field line.

That brought up the slumping Jones, who was dropped from his
customary cleanup spot to sixth in the lineup by Braves manager
Bobby Cox on Sunday after batting just .139 (5-for-36) on the
trip to see his average slide to a paltry .212.

Hampered by a sore back, Jones capped the trip in rather
embarrassing fashion by becoming the first Atlanta Brave since
David Justice in 1993 to strike out five times in one game on
Sunday.

But the 2005 Silver Slugger Award winner spent the off-day on
Monday working on his swing at his batting cage in his Duluth,
Georgia home.  The work paid dividends as Jones ripped the first
pitch from Sosa to center field, plating Francoeur for a 2-0
advantage.

"I was flowing forward," Jones said of his struggles.  "I was
not sitting back on my back side.  I worked on it Monday and it
worked out today."

That would be all the run support that Davies (2-2) would need.
The righthander allowed one run and six hits, struck out three
and walked two in eight innings to improve to 4-2 lifetime
against New York.

"Kyle's on a pretty nice roll," Cox said. "He's changing speeds
with his curveball and his fastball is starting to run with good
movement."

Davies threw 109 pitches - 68 strikes - en route to his longest
outing of the season.  Davies helped his own cause by smashing a
two-out, three-run homer to dead center field off Mets reliever
Aaron Sele in the sixth for an 8-1 edge.

"I can hit a little bit," joked Davies, who played Little League
ball with Francoeur.  "(Francoeur) batted third and I batted
fourth. I was a hitter."

It was the first hit in 14 at bats this season for Davies, who
has five hits in his major league career.  Two of them are
homers.

"Kyle could rake it as a kid," Francoeur admitted.  "I'll give
it to him.  He was one of the best 13-year old hitters I've ever
seen. ... Times change.  Now he's a pitcher. Once in a blue
moon, he can hit one."

In his first start back at Turner Field, Sosa struggled. Signed
by the Mets in the offseason and inserted into the starting
rotation after Orlando Hernandez was placed on the disabled
list, Sosa reverted to his 2005 form in which he was 13-3 with a
2.55 ERA in 44 games with Atlanta, winning his first three
decisions with the Mets and not allowing more than two runs in
each of his first three outings.

But the righthander looked more like the pitcher who was 3-10
with a 5.46 ERA in 26 games with Atlanta last season in this
one, allowing five runs and six hits in four innings, striking
out four and walking three.

"You have to give credit to the Braves; they were hitting my
pitches," said Sosa through a translator.  "I feel down on
myself because I let the team down, especially having Atlanta
behind us.  I know it was a big game for us."

Pinch hitter Dave Newhan accounted for New York's lone run with
a fielder's choice in the fifth.

Chipper Jones and McCann each drove in a run in the third and
first baseman Scott Thorman homered in the fourth for Atlanta,
which has not dropped a series at home this season.]]></description>
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				<link>http://areyouwatchingthis.com/mlb/news/24200-Jones-Davies-lead-Braves-to-easy-win-over-Mets</link>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 06:45:02 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[RHP Sosa looks to help Mets handle Braves]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[Ny Mets (28-15) at Atlanta (26-18)                   7:35 pm EDT

ATLANTA (Ticker) - The New York Mets have the best record in the
National League but have some unfinished business to take care
of in Atlanta.

Former Brave Jorge Sosa (3-0, 2.25 ERA) takes the mound for the
Mets on Tuesday in the opener of a three-game series.

New York stopped Atlanta's streak of 14 straight division titles
last season, but Atlanta has come back determined to start a
new streak. The Braves have won four of the last six meetings
between the teams. 

Fresh off of taking two of three from the crosstown rival
New York Yankees, the Mets look to improve on their major 
league-best 14-5 road record.

"Moving into Atlanta and facing those guys who are running our
tail, we have to return the favor," Mets' right fielder Shawn
Green told the team's official Web site.

In order to do so, the Mets look to Sosa, who went 26-13 in two
seasons with Atlanta. Sosa has won his first three starts since
being called up from Class AAA New Orleans to start for the
injured Orlando Hernandez on May 5. In his last outing the
righthander allowed one run and one hits in seven innings as New
York beat Chicago,8-1, on Wednesday.

Sosa has faced his former team just once, as a losing to them as
a member of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, despite allowing just one
run and five hits in six innings in June 2003.

Atlanta, which has lost four of six, and trails the Mets by 2
1/2 games, will send Kyle Davies (1-2, 5.17) to the mound. In
his last time out, Davies, who is 2-1 with a 3.63 ERA vs. the
Mets at Turner Field, allowed six runs - two earned - and five
hits in 4 2/3 innings as Atlanta lost 6-4 to Washington on
Wednesday.]]></description>
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				<link>http://areyouwatchingthis.com/mlb/news/24142-RHP-Sosa-looks-to-help-Mets-handle-Braves</link>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 13:23:27 GMT</pubDate>
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