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ATLANTA -- David Wright hit two solo homers, New Yorks bullpen pitched five-plus scoreless innings and the Mets overcame an injury to starter Jonathon Niese in a 4-3 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Thursday night. Niese left the game in the fourth with left shoulder discomfort and the Mets trailing 3-2, but the Mets bullpen shut down Atlanta for the next 5 2-3 innings. Closer Bobby Parnell earned his 11th save in 14 chances by facing the minimum in the ninth, retiring Freddie Freeman and Justin Upton on groundouts and B.J. Upton on a lineout. LaTroy Hawkins (2-0), New Yorks third pitcher, earned the victory after allowing two hits and striking out two in two innings. The Mets have won four of six, thanks in part to a bullpen thats 1-0 with a 1.55 ERA over the last nine games. Mike Minor (8-3) allowed nine hits, four runs and two walks in six-plus innings for Atlanta. The left-hander struck out six. Wright, who went 3 for 4, has 32 homers against Atlanta, his most against any opponent, including 18 at Turner Field. In his last 14 games overall, Wright is hitting .407 with four homers and eight RBIs since June 5. It was his 20th multihomer game and second this season. Atlanta used four singles in the third to go ahead 3-1. Chris Johnsons RBI single scored Freeman from second and moved Justin Upton to third. Gerald Lairds RBI single drove in Upton. Those runs came off Niese, who winced in the fourth after making a pitch to Tyler Pastornicky. Niese motioned to the dugout that he was hurt and was done for the night after manager Terry Collins visited the mound. Niese gave up eight hits and three runs with five strikeouts in 3 1-3 innings. Wright gave the Mets a 1-0 lead in the first with his 10th homer and led off the fourth with his 11th to cut Atlantas lead to 3-2. After Wrights second homer, New York loaded the bases with no out, but Minor escaped the jam on Juan Lagares flyout and Omar Quintanillas double play grounder. Andrew Browns pinch-hit homer to lead off the Mets fifth tied to score at 3-all. David Aardsma replaced Niese and pitched out of a jam with runners on first and second when Justin Upton lined out. After Hawkins faced four batters in the fifth and four in the sixth, Brandon Lyon faced the minimum in the seventh. The Mets took a 4-3 lead in the top of the seventh. Omar Quintanilla doubled on the 10th pitch he saw from Minor and scored from second when pinch-hitter Josh Satin doubled down the right-field line to chase Minor. Jordan Walden got the next six outs, facing the minimum, for Atlanta. In the eighth against Lyon, Andrelton Simmons reached with one out on Wrights fielding error and advanced to third on Pastornickys broken-bat single to right. Josh Edgin ended the threat when Jason Heyward grounded out. Luis Avilan faced the minimum for Atlanta in the ninth. NOTES: Braves 3B Chris Johnson committed three errors, including two on the same play in the ninth. ... Nieses road ERA rose to 6.66 in five starts this year. ... On a bobble-head night for B.J. Upton, the promotions namesake went 0 for 5 with two strikeouts. Upton, who signed a five-year $75.25 million contract thats the biggest in franchise history, is batting.169 in his first season with Atlanta ... Niese missed a turn in the rotation with tendinitis in his left shoulder late last month, but avoided the disabled list. He received 12 days of rest before making his next start June 9, a no-decision against Miami in which he allowed two earned runs in 6 2-3 innings. Cheap Blazers Shoes .Y. -- Leading 3-0 with only 11:25 left, the Colorado Avalanche committed a seemingly meaningless penalty to give the New York Islanders a power play. 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All Blacks prop Owen Franks should count himself extremely luck after he was cleared of an alleged eye-gouge on Wallabies lock Kane Douglas in Bledisloe II.Thats the opinion of former Wallabies winger Cameron Shepherd, who told ESPNs Scrum5 podcast he thought the incident had been swept up like it didnt happen.Referencing a similar incident that saw Argentina forward Mariano Galarza suspended for nine weeks?at last years Rugby World Cup, Shepherd said Franks didnt even have the excuse he couldnt see what he was doing.As far as the Franks eye-gouge, you cant be putting your hands up around someones eyes, Shepherd said.And not only that, hes looking at him; so its not like his head is down in a maul or a ruck and he cant see what hes doing. And then after his hand is removed from the eyes he comes underneath and it almost looks as if he goes for a choke. Now I would never say thats 100 percent what hes doing, but thats what it looks like and thats the way its interpreted.Now look apologies but I cant remember the two people in question with this case but when New Zealand played Argentina at the Rugby World Cup 12 months ago, one of the Argentinian forwards lashed out with his hands towards the face of one of the New Zealand players and he got nine weeks for doing that.Now Ive watched both those bits of footage side by side at Fox Sports during the week, and llook Franks should have been in a lot more trouble than this getting swept up like it didnt happen.ddddddddddddShepherd also spoke of the Wallabies defensive woes, telling Scrum5 hed heard rumours Michael Cheika had been putting his squad through a heavy workload the day before each Test match.Ive thought on top of everything from the last few weeks, the boys look tired. I think theyre being over-trained at the moment. I think Cheika is so nervous about being under-prepared that hes doing too much.A few sources close to the camp have told me that training sessions, even the day before the game, are going for two hours. Now if youre still prepping for two hours the day before a Test match, youre not in the right mindset anyway; you know that should be where you just put a little bit of the polish on what youve done during the week.So to me, yeah its mindset. And I think sometimes our structures in defence arent very good. But I think that our change in (defensive) attitude has only come about because the guys are so tired, theyre rundown and mentally theyre already battling that whole issue of pressure of beating the All Blacks. So all those things combined I think are having an effect.Listen to the full ESPN Scrum5 podcast here. ' ' '