Mets Batter Usually Trusty Bullpen to Defeat Braves John Amis/Associated Press In the 10th inning, the Mets' Jordany Valdespin scores on a single off Ruben Tejada to break a 5-5 tie. ATLANTA - The Mets roughed up the National League's best bullpen. They handled the league's best hitter in a key situation, and they beat the best team in the East. So it took Manager Terry Collins no time at all when asked if this was the Mets" best win of the season. "I think it is," Collins said. The Mets (12-15) beat the Braves, 7-5, at Turner Field on Friday with improbable late-game heroics, especially considering the way the Mets blew two games in Miami this week. Marlon Byrd homered off the left-hander Eric O'Flaherty, perhaps the best eighth-inning pitcher in the league, in the eighth to tie it, 4-4. In the ninth, with one out, David Wright belted a home run off one of baseball's best closers, Craig Kimbrel, to tie the game again, 5-5. In the 10th, the electric reserve outfielder Jordany Valdespin drew a two-out walk and stole second base. He hopped around as if he was going to steal third, but he did not have to. Ruben Tejada lashed a single to center to give the Mets a 6-5 lead. Daniel Murphy followed with another single, and it was 7-5. Jeurys Familia pitched a 1-2-3 inning in the 10th, and the Mets had a signature win. "To be a good team you've got to win close games and you've got to win a majority of those extra inning games, so yeah, it felt good especially with what we went through in Miami," Wright said. The hitters delivered, and so did the Mets" bullpen. In the ninth, the Braves had the winning run on third in a 5-5 game with one out when the closer Bobby Parnell got Jordan Schafer to hit a weak fly ball to center field for the second out. Justin Upton, the Braves" No. 3 hitter and the April Player of the Month, grounded out to third to end the threat. "I think speeding him up with the inside fastball on the previous pitch really helped me with him," Parnell said. Then I threw him a get-me-over curveball that was down, and I think the speed difference was in my favor. The wind whipped the flag on top of the scoreboard as if Turner Field were Wrigley Field. Hot dog wrappers flew around the ballpark and fly balls were blown off course. The Mets had some fun right away with the gusts. Tejada, the game's lead off hitter, reached on a bloop double down the right-field line that carried away from second baseman Dan Uggla. After Daniel Murphy and David Wright made outs, John Buck clubbed his 10th home run of the season off Atlanta starter Mike Minor. In the second, Lucas Duda homered into the seats in left-center, and it was 3-0. Minor set down 18 straight before he left the game. Atlanta's relievers were 6-1 with a 1.94 earned run average before Byrd and Wright delivered their big blows. "He's as dominant as anybody in the game, you just hope he makes a minor mistake or you don't have a chance," Wright said of Kimbrel. "That's Captain America," Byrd said of Wright. We just jump on his back offensively.