MLB

Edgin’s major league debut spoiled by Braves HRs, power outage

ATLANTA — David Ross homered and drove in four runs, Chipper Jones also connected and the Atlanta Braves endured a power outage to beat the New York Mets 7-5 on Friday night.

Jones hit his 49th career homer against the Mets in the sixth off Josh Edgin, making his major league debut.

Cristhian Martinez (4-1) pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the fifth. He gave up one walk with two strikeouts in one inning.

Craig Kimbrel earned his NL-leading 26th save with three strikeouts in the ninth.

Mets pitchers issued a season-high 11 walks.

Ross also had three of those walks, including a bases-loaded pass from Chris Young in the first inning.

Ross filled at catcher with Brian McCann on paternity leave. McCann’s wife, Ashley, delivered the couple’s first child, a son, on Friday.

Young (2-3) gave up five runs on six hits and three walks in three innings. His three walks came in the first inning, setting an ugly pace.

Ross hit a three-run homer off Young in the third, driving in Jones and Freddie Freeman. The homer gave the Braves a 5-0 lead, but the Mets scored four runs in the fourth to knock Tim Hudson out of the game.

Kirk Nieuwenhuis had a two-run single, Scott Hairston drove in a run with a double and Ruben Tejada added a run-scoring single.

Wilson’s right hand hit the ground as he slid while chasing a grounder by Nieuwenhuis into center field in the Mets’ four-run fourth.

Prado played two games at shortstop in 2008. He appeared comfortable at the position, handling grounders cleanly in the fourth, sixth and eighth innings.

Left-hander Edgin, called up from Triple-A Buffalo before the game, entered in the fifth after Miguel Batista loaded the bases with three walks. Edgin struck out pinch-hitter Juan Francisco and Michael Bourn to end the inning.

The Mets couldn’t score after loading the bases with no outs in the fifth. Hudson gave up a single to David Wright before walking Ike Davis. Martinez walked Lucas Duda to load the bases before striking out Hairston and Nieuwenhuis and ending the inning on Jose Thole’s flyball to centerfield.

Edgin gave up two runs in the sixth. After Jones’ two-out homer, Freeman doubled off Edgin and scored on Dan Uggla’s single off Ramon Ramirez.

Pinch-hitter Ronny Cedeno doubled off Braves left-hander Eric O’Flaherty and scored on a single by Andres Torres in the eight.

Jones’ homer left him tied with Mike Schmidt for second place on the career list for most RBIs by third basemen at 1,595. George Brett is first with 1,596.

Jones, who also had a double, has a 14-game hitting streak.

The Braves were leading 2-0 with two outs in the top of the second inning, and Tim Hudson was pitching to the Mets’ Jose Thole, when power was lost at the stadium.

After only a few seconds, limited power was restored, including to the scoreboard, but the stadium lights were still out. Stadium lights began to return after about 10 minutes.

There was no immediate word on the cause of the loss of power, but there were heavy storms with lightning in Atlanta on Friday afternoon.