Five things about the Braves' 4-3 walk-off win against the Mets on Monday afternoon in the first game of a scheduled doubleheader.
1. The Braves' win was their seventh this season in their final at-bat. Since Brian Snitker took over as manager – interim at the time – on May 16, 2016, the Braves lead the majors with 44 wins in their last at-bat.
2. Freddie Freeman had two singles to give him 1,149 career hits and move past Javy Lopez for fifth on the franchise list since the Braves moved to Atlanta in 1966. He trails Chipper Jones (2,726), Dale Murphy (1,901), Andruw Jones (1,683) and Hank Aaron (1,334).
3. Charlie Culberson's two-run walk-off home run against Mets reliever Seth Lugo was his third game-ending homer and first since Sept. 25, 2015, when he hit one for the Dodgers against Colorado. His homer Monday came as a pinch-hitter, making him the first Brave to hit a pinch-hit walk-off homer since Brook Conrad's grand slam off Cincinnati's Francisco Cordero on May 20, 2010. It was also Culberson's first homer as a Brave, making him just the second Atlanta Brave to hit a walk-off for his first homer, joining Keith Lockhart (May 1997).
4. Max Fried became the first Braves pitcher with two pick-offs in one inning since Kevin Millwood in 1999. Only six major leaguers did it in the interim, most recently Minnesota's Kyle Gibson vs. Kansas City on Sept. 7, 2016.
5. Tyler Flowers' seventh-inning homer off Jacob deGrom was the only run allowed by the Mets ace, and came one day after Flowers hit a three-run homer off Red Sox ace Chris Sale, Flowers' former batterymate with the Chicago White Sox. Flowers' other homer this season was against the Cubs' Jose Quintana on May 14. Quintana was also a former White Sox All-Star and batterymate of Flowers.
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