NEW YORK -- The Atlanta Braves have produced five home runs this season, their fewest through 25 games since 1931. They surrendered three to the New York Mets in the first inning on Monday.
David Wright, Yoenis Cespedes and Lucas Duda took newly promoted Mike Foltynewicz deep during a four-run opening frame, and Bartolo Colon tossed eight scoreless innings as the Mets coasted to a 4-1 win at Citi Field.
In his third attempt at the milestone, Colon earned career win No. 220. That broke a tie with Pedro Martinez for second among Dominican-born pitchers. Juan Marichal tops that list with 243 wins.
Colon (2-1) departed at 99 pitches. If Colon had continued, he would have bid to break his own franchise record for the oldest pitcher to toss a shutout for the Mets. He did so last Sept. 5 against the Miami Marlins at 42 years, 104 days old. He is now three weeks from his 43rd birthday. The last time a pitcher older than Colon tossed a shutout was Jamie Moyer at age 47 with the Philadelphia Phillies back in 2010.
Colon allowed six hits in the opening three innings but managed to keep Atlanta off the scoreboard. He subsequently retired a dozen straight batters at one point and allowed only one hit over his final five innings.
Jeurys Familia surrendered a ninth-inning run in a non-save situation.
The Mets (16-8) launched three first-inning homers for the fourth time in franchise history. The last instance came on April 13, 2006, at Washington, when Carlos Beltran, Wright and Cliff Floyd homered against Livan Hernandez.
Wright's homer against Foltynewicz was the 238th of his career. That moves him ever closer to Darryl Strawberry's franchise record of 252. Wright had entered the game 8-for-38 with 17 strikeouts in his previous nine games.
Cespedes became the fastest player to 25 homers with the Mets, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. He reached that total in 77 games. The previous fastest to that mark had been Carlos Delgado at 88 games back in 2006.
Odds & ends: Chase d'Arnaud, brother of the Mets’ Travis d'Arnaud, delivered a pinch-hit single in the seventh in his Braves debut. … Ex-Met Eric O'Flaherty tossed a scoreless seventh for Atlanta. Kelly Johnson and O'Flaherty received 2015 National League championship rings from Mets chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon and general manager Sandy Alderson in the visitors clubhouse before the series opener.
What's next: Matt Harvey (2-3, 4.76 ERA) opposes right-hander Matt Wisler (0-2, 4.26) on Tuesday at 7:10 p.m. ET.