MAJOR LEAGUE NOTEBOOK

Reds roll; Mets continue
their collapse

Associated Press

For the Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves and Arizona Diamondbacks, the wins keep coming in bunches.

For the New York Mets, the losses are stacking up the same way.

The largest baseball crowd in Astrodome history -- 54,037 -- saw the Reds move one game ahead of Houston in the NL Central race with a 4-1 victory last night.

Pete Harnisch pitched Cincinnati to its sixth straight victory, improving to 4-0 this year against his former club, which has lost three in a row.

"It beats being one game behind," Harnisch said. "We have a lot of fun on this team. We don't think too much about anything beyond today."

While NL West champion Arizona tied a team record with its seventh straight win, 9-3 over Colorado, a bigger drama unfolded at Shea Stadium.

There, the Mets continued an amazing collapse by losing their seventh consecutive game, 9-3 to the NL East champion Braves. As a result, New York stayed 1 games behind Houston for the wild-card spot.

Braves 9, Mets 3

Atlanta

		AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
GWilliams lf	4	1	0	0	1	2	.276
BBoone 2b	5	1	1	0	1	1	.250
CJones 3b	5	1	2	1	0	1	.320
Klesko 1b	3	1	1	1	1	0	.300
BHunter 1b	0	1	0	0	1	0	.251
BJordan rf	4	2	2	3	0	0	.283
AJones cf	4	1	1	0	0	1	.272
GMyers c	3	0	1	0	2	1	.275
JHernandez ss	3	0	1	0	0	1	.267
d-Weiss ph-ss	2	1	2	2	0	0	.227
Glavine p	1	0	0	0	1	0	.111
e-Battle ph	1	0	1	0	0	0	.333
Remlinger p	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
f-Lockhart ph	1	0	1	1	0	0	.255
Bergman p	0	0	0	0	0	0	.107
	Totals	36	9	13	8	7	7

New York

		AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Henderson lf	5	1	2	1	0	0	.323
Dunston cf	5	1	3	0	0	0	.320
Olerud 1b	4	0	1	0	0	1	.301
Piazza c	4	0	0	2	0	0	.309
Alfonzo 2b	4	0	0	0	0	1	.303
Ventura 3b	3	1	1	0	1	0	.302
Agbayani rf	3	0	0	0	0	0	.287
g-DHamilton ph	1	0	0	0	0	0	.311
ROrdonez ss	4	0	2	0	0	1	.255
Hershiser p	0	0	0	0	0	0	.150
Dotel p		0	0	0	0	0	0	.125
a-Payton ph	1	0	0	0	0	0	.333
BJJones p	0	0	0	0	0	0	.313
b-Mora ph	1	0	0	0	0	0	.138
McElroy p	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Taylor p	0	0	0	0	0	0	--
c-Toca ph	1	0	0	0	0	1	.333
Cook p		0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Mahomes p	0	0	0	0	0	0	.313
Tam p		0	0	0	0	0	0	--
h-MFranco ph	0	0	0	0	1	0	.238
	Totals	36	3	9	3	2	4


Atlanta		401 000 004--9 13 1
New York	000 001 011--3  9 0

a-flied out for Dotel in the 3rd. b-grounded out for Jones in the 5th. c-struck out for Taylor in the 7th. d-singled for Hernandez in the 8th. e-singled for Glavine in the 8th. f-singled for Remlinger in the 9th. g-flied out for Agbayani in the 9th. h-walked for Tam in the 9th.

E--BBoone (13). LOB--Atlanta 11, New York 8. 2B--JHernandez (19), Henderson (29), Dunston (11). 3B--BJordan (3), Weiss (4). HR--BJordan (23) off Dotel. RBIs--CJones (108), Klesko (78), BJordan 3 (113), Weiss 2 (29), Lockhart (18), Henderson (39), Piazza 2 (120). SB--CJones (25). S--Glavine. SF--BJordan. GIDP--CJones, Agbayani.

Runners left in scoring position--Atlanta 8 (GWilliams 3, BBoone, CJones 2, AJones, Glavine); New York 5 (Dunston 2, Piazza, Alfonzo 2).

Runners moved up--GWilliams, Henderson, Olerud, Piazza 2.

DP--Atlanta 1 (Glavine, JHernandez and BHunter); New York 1 (Alfonzo, ROrdonez and Olerud).

Atlanta		IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Glvine W, 13-11	7	6	1	1	0	4	88	4.21
Remlinger	1	2	1	1	0	0	20	2.31
Bergman		1	1	1	1	2	0	21	5.26

New York	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Hrshsr L, 13-12	1/3	5	4	4	0	0	24	4.66
Dotel		2-1/3	2	1	1	2	2	48	5.34
BJJones		2	0	0	0	1	1	24	5.61
McElroy		2/3	0	0	0	1	0	10	5.50
Taylor		1-1/3	1	0	0	1	2	17	8.10
Cook		1/3	2	0	0	1	0	12	3.88
Mahomes		1	3	4	4	1	1	29	3.88
Tam		2/3	0	0	0	0	1	9	3.18

Inherited runners-scored--Dotel 3-1, Taylor 1-0, Mahomes 3-0, Tam 1-0.

IBB--off Taylor (Klesko) 1. HBP--by Mahomes (AJones), by Hershiser (GWilliams). WP--Dotel.

T--3:15. A--43,888 (55,777).