John Smoltz pitched eight sharp innings for his 15th win, Andruw Jones became the first Atlanta hitter with consecutive 40-homer seasons, and the Braves beat New York 12-0 Tuesday night to extend the Mets' late-season slump.
The NL East champions began their final six-game road trip before the playoffs. They have lost three straight and six of seven overall.
Pedro Martinez is scheduled to make his final playoff tuneup for New York on Wednesday night.
Smoltz (15-9) gave up six hits and walked two, reaching 15 wins for the first time in eight years. He struck out six.
Mets left-hander Oliver Perez gave up homers to Jones, Willy Aybar and Matt Diaz. Aybar had three hits and Edgar Renteria hit a three-run double in a six-run eighth.
Smoltz is 29-16 in two seasons back in the rotation after four years as the Braves' closer. He last reached 15 wins in 1998, when he was 17-3.
Macay McBride pitched the ninth for Atlanta.
Perez (3-13) took his third loss with only one win in six starts since joining the Mets in a trade from Pittsburgh. He gave up seven hits and six runs with three walks and five strikeouts in 5 1-3 innings.
Aybar led off the first with a double, advanced to third on Marcus Giles' single and scored on Renteria's sacrifice fly. Jones followed with the two-run homer, his 40th, for a 3-0 lead.
The only other players in franchise history to post consecutive 40-homer seasons were Eddie Mathews (1953-55) and Hank Aaron (1962-63), both with the Milwaukee Braves.
Jones set a club record with 51 homers last season.
Aybar hit his fourth homer in the third inning, just over the reach of left fielder Cliff Floyd's outstretched glove. Diaz added his seventh homer in the fourth for a 5-0 lead.
Diaz drove in Jones with a sixth-inning sacrifice fly to push the lead to 6-0 and knock Perez out of the game.
The Braves added six eighth-inning runs on six hits off Heath Bell. Brian McCann's RBI double drove in Ryan Langerhans. Pinch-hitter Daryle Ward and Giles added run-scoring singles before Renteria's three-run double.
Notes: With his sixth strikeout, Smoltz tied Frank Tanana for 19th place on the career list with 2,773. ... Braves 3B Chipper Jones did not play due to a sore left oblique and a sore second toe on his right foot. 1B Adam LaRoche also was held out of Atlanta's lineup with a sore right hamstring. ... The Mets already are assured of their first winning record in Atlanta since 1992. They fell to 5-2 in Atlanta and 10-6 overall against the Braves this season. The Mets' record at Turner Field is 25-53.
