NEW YORK -- Jacob deGrom took the mound with a disappointing record, but with the full backing of his manager. The rookie right-hander rewarded Terry Collins confidence with the strongest outing of his young career. DeGrom struck out 11 in seven shutout innings and also delivered a table-setting hit from the No. 8 spot in the batting order as the New York Mets tagged All-Star Julio Teheran and the Atlanta Braves 8-3 Tuesday night. "Showed you that he can certainly compete in this league," Collins praised. The shaggy-haired deGrom (2-5) pitched the Mets to their third win in a row, and the franchises 4,000th victory since starting out as an expansion team in 1962. Atlanta has lost three straight. The lanky 26-year-old scattered seven hits, walked none and matched a career best for strikeouts. "Feel I had my best start," deGrom said. "Controlling every pitch I needed to." DeGrom said he got most of his strikeouts on "elevated fastballs and sinkers," though he felt his most effective pitch was his curveball. "Knows what hes got to do to get a K when he needs it, and just goes out and does it," Collins said. The Mets set a team record at Citi Field with 18 hits. Curtis Granderson kept up his resurgence with a leadoff home run and Lucas Duda doubled twice, singled and drew two walks. Daniel Murphy also doubled twice and third baseman David Wright added two hits and made a nifty catch. DeGroms single led to a three-run burst in the second inning, and he exited as a 6-for-22 (.273) hitter in the majors, part of the reason Collins felt comfortable in tweaking his lineup. "Dont really care where I bat. More focused on the pitching," deGrom said. Said Collins: "Way too much made of the pitcher hitting eighth. Ill need to call La Russa and tell him he created a huge monster." Hall of Fame manager Tony La Russa holds the record for most times batting his pitcher eighth in a season -- few other skippers have followed his lead since. Teheran (8-6) gave up a career-high 11 hits after shutting down the Mets in his previous outing, part of a Braves sweep last week. He lasted just 3 1-3 innings, matching the shortest of his 53 starts in the majors. "One of those nights that everybody has and today was mine," he said. "I feel like everything I threw, they got a good swing." Teheran was picked Sunday for his first NL All-Star team, but the 23-year-old righty was very hittable from the get-go. Collins noted before the game that the ball was flying during batting practice -- Granderson proved him correct, lining Teherans second pitch off the facade of the second deck in right field. "Its just one of those starts," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "The young man, hes bound to have a bad one every now and then. If you go out there 35 times, youre going to have a bad one, and today was one of his bad ones." Granderson, rebounding nicely from a slow start, hit his fourth home run in seven games. On Monday night, his tying homer in the eighth inning sent the Mets to an 11-inning win over Atlanta. The shot also gave the Mets a home run in eight straight games at Citi Field, matching a team record for the stadium that opened in 2009. The Mets led 5-0 in the third. Atlanta put runners at the corners with two outs in the sixth, but Wright made a diving, backhanded catch on Jason Heywards liner to end the inning. Three Mets relievers closed out the win. They did it while winds whipped debris all over the field as a storm blew into the ballpark. Freddie Freeman hit a two-out, two-run single in the ninth. NOTES: Granderson hit his third leadoff homer of the year and 27th of his career. Mets RHP Dillon Gee (strained right lat) comes off the disabled list to start Wednesday night against RHP Ervin Santana. ... Teheran is set to start Sunday against the Cubs at Wrigley Field, meaning he wont pitch in the All-Star game Tuesday at Minnesota. ... Andrelton Simmons went hitless for Atlanta. He had six straight multihit games coming in. ... This was the sixth time -- all in the last month -- that Collins has batted his pitcher eighth. DeGrom was the first pitcher to get a hit in that slot. Collins hit Eric Young Jr. in the ninth spot, saying it created a double leadoff position. Green Bay Packers Store .C. -- Only two Syracuse teams have won their first 20 games, and C. 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The arena was evacuated about 45 minutes before the scheduled 9:30 p.m. EST tipoff when a generator malfunction outside the arena sent smoke pouring into the building, according to NBA spokeswoman Sharon Lima.CRANBROOK, B.C. -- Patrik Bartosak stopped 32 shots as the Red Deer Rebels doubled up the host Kootenay Ice 4-2 on Friday in Western Hockey League play. The 20-year-old improved his career record to 6-2-1 against Kootenay to go along with a 2.13 goals-against average and .922 save percentage. Adam Musil and Grayson Pawlenchuk had a goal and an assist apiece for the Rebels (1-0-0), who overcame a 2-1 score by finding the back of the net three times in the third period, while Haydn Fleury and Lukas Sutter had the others. Jagger Dirk and Sam Reinhart each scored for the Ice (0-1-0) as Mackenzie Skapski turned aside 38 shots in a losing cause. Reinhart opened the scoring 3:54 into the game to give Kootenay a 1-0 lead. Fleury responded for Red Deer less than two minutes later, however Dirk scored at 9:19 to give the Ice a one-goal edge after 20 minutes of play. Kootenay looked to extend its lead in the second period, but Bartosak kept his squad in the game by stopping all eleven shots he faced. Dirk tied the game just 34 seconds into third period and Musil gave the Rebels their first lead of the game only six seconds later. Sutter put the game away with a power-play goal at the nine-minute mark. Red Deer went 1 for 5 on the power play while Kootenay failed to score on three chances with the man advantage. --- Wheat Kings 6 Warriors 3 MOOSE JAW, Sask. -- Taylor Cooper scored three times and Jens Meiller had a goal and two assists as Brandon doubled up the Warriors. Richard Nejezchleb and Ryley Lindgren also scored for the Wheat Kings (1-0-0) as Curtis Honey stopped 36 shots for the win. 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Mitchell Moroz added a single goal to round out the offence for the Oil Kings as Tristan Jarry made 27 saves for the win. Greg Chase had two goals for the Hitmen (0-1-0) as Jake Virtanen found the back of the net once. Chris Driedger picked up the loss after allowing six goals on 26 shots through 32 minutes of action. Mack Shields replaced Driedger and stopped 11-of-12 shots. --- Tigers 6 Hurricanes 1 LETHBRIDGE, Alta. -- Cole Sanford scored twice and Trevor Cox had three assists as Medicine Hat downed the Hurricanes. Ty Stanton, Steven Owre, Curtis Valk and Boston Leier also scored for the Tigers (1-0-0) as Marek Langhamer made 21 saves for the win. Jamal Watson scored the lone goal for Lethbridge (0-1-0) while Jonny Hogue turned away 32 shots. --- Rockets 5 Blazers 2 KAMLOOPS, B.C. -- Rourke Chartier scored two goals and set up one more as Kelowna beat the Blazers. Jordon Cooke made 27 saves for the victory while Riley Stadel, Austin Glover and Justin Kirkland rounded out the Rockets (1-0-0) offence with a goal apiece. Joe Kornelson and Cole Ully scored for Kamloops (0-1-0) as Taran Kozun stopped 29-of-33 shots in net. --- Winterhawks 9 Cougars 2 PORTLAND, Ore. -- Oliver Bjorkstrand scored once and set up four more as the Winterhawks crushed Prince George. Chase De Leo and Presten Kopeck each had two goals and an assist for Portland (1-0-0) while Nicolas Petan scored once and tacked on three assists. Layne Viveiros and Garrett Haar and Anton Cederholm rounded out the offence for the Winterhawks as Brendan Burke stopped 29 shots for the win. Klarc Wilson and Brad Morrison scored for the Cougars (0-1-0). Brett Zarowny took the loss after allowing six goals on 27 shots through 40 minutes of action. 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