ATLANTA -- Kelly Johnson keeps coming through in clutch situations for the Mets.Its extra sweet for Johnson when those hits come against his former Braves teammates.Johnsons pinch-hit double drove in the go-ahead run in New Yorks four-run eighth inning, and the Mets rallied from a four-run deficit to beat Atlanta 6-4 on Friday night for their sixth straight win.Right now things are falling our way, Mets manager Terry Collins said.Curtis Granderson, who hit a two-run homer in the sixth, had a run-scoring single to tie the game. Johnsons double down the right-field line off rookie right-hander Maurico Cabrera drove in Asdrubal Cabrera.The surging Mets lead St. Louis by a half-game for the second NL wild card and are a half-game behind wild card leader San Francisco, which won 7-6 in 12 innings at Arizona.The defending NL champions (75-66) have won 15 of 19 to match their season high at nine games over .500.Johnson was traded from Atlanta to the Mets on June 8 and has twice made the Braves pay for the move. His pinch-hit homer in the 11th inning gave the Mets a 1-0 win over Atlanta on June 25.Johnson said there is a little bit of extra satisfaction in delivering big hits against the Braves, who also traded him to the Mets last season.Its just because this is the place you debuted and you come home, Johnson said. This was the first team, so you like to come back and kind of show off a little bit and have some success. Its a little sweeter, I guess.Julio Teheran and the Braves led 4-0 after five innings.A fielding error by Braves rookie shortstop Dansby Swanson and two walks from Maurico Cabrera (3-1) loaded the bases to set up the Mets big eighth inning.Yoenis Cespedes drove in a run with a sacrifice fly. After the single by Granderson and double by Johnson, Jose Ramirez hit pinch-hitter Michael Conforto in his shin with a pitch to force in another run.Hansel Robles (6-4) worked a scoreless seventh. Jeurys Familia pitched around Adonis Garcias leadoff double and a two-out walk to Nick Markakis in the ninth for his major league-leading 48th save.Matt Kemp homered and Markakis had a two-run single for last-place Atlanta, which has lost four straight.Mets rookie Robert Gsellman allowed four runs and seven hits in five innings.The six-game winning streak is the Mets second-longest of the year. They won eight straight from April 22-30.TEHERAN STUNG BY LINERTeheran extended his streak of scoreless streak against the Mets to 29 2/3 innings over two seasons before giving up Grandersons homer in the sixth. It came after Teheran was hit on his right forearm by Cespedes liner.Its OK. Its a little bit sore, Teheran said. Good thing I was able to escape. It got my skin. ... I dont think (the homer) was because I got hit. I just made a mistake.STREAKS ON AND OFFGranderson has homered in four consecutive games, the longest streak of his career. ... Freddie Freemans fifth-inning single extended his hitting streak to 15 games. Ender Inciartes hitting streak ended at 18 games. The two began the night with the longest active streaks in the majors.TRAINERS ROOMMets: 2B Neil Walker had season-ending back surgery Thursday to repair a herniated disk. Walker announced plans for the operation on Sept. 1. ... RHP Jacob deGrom (sore forearm) played catch in the outfield before batting practice but hasnt thrown off a mound since his last start on Sept. 1.Braves: Infield prospect Ozzie Albies will undergo surgery next week for a broken right elbow. Albies, 19, was injured while fouling off an inside pitch for Double-A Mississippi. The Braves hope Albies is ready for spring training.UP NEXTMets: RHP Bartolo Colon was moved up one day to start on Saturday instead of Seth Lugo, who had a blister develop in his last start. The blister has popped and Lugo is scheduled to start on Sunday. Colon (13-7, 3.22) is 9-3 with a 2.35 ERA in 13 career starts against the Braves.Braves: RHP John Gant (1-3, 4.70) will look for his second win overall, and second against the Mets. He allowed only one run and two hits in 6 2/3 innings during a 5-1 win on June 17 at New York, which traded him to the Braves last year. Damian Jones Hawks Jersey .Y. -- Knicks coach Mike Woodson said Wednesday that J. 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DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke has an opening on its mens basketball schedule because of the North Carolina law that impacts lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.The Blue Devils were supposed to host Albany on Nov. 12 as part of the Hall of Fame Tip-Off tournament, but there is no opponent listed on that day in Dukes schedule that was released Wednesday.Holly Liapis, spokeswoman for the State University of New York system that includes Albany, said that game wont be played because of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomos executive order banning publicly funded, nonessential travel to North Carolina.Cuomos order is in response to a North Carolina law that opponents say can allow discrimination against LGBT people.Liapis said SUNY and its campuses continue to support Gov. Cuomo on taking this stand.Its most unfortunate. As an institution, if not personally, we have gone on the record indicating that our state position on this [HB2] is very troubling, if not embarrassing, Duke athletic director Kevin White told ESPN on Thursday.Albany mens basketball coach Will Brown told ESPN on Thursday, At this point in time I cannot comment on the matter other than we are looking forward to playing our new opening night opponent, Penn State.In a statement, North Carolina Gov.?Pat McCrory called Cuomos executive order ridiculous and wants the game to be played.While Governor Cuomo has initiated a ridiculous boycott of our state, thousands of his citizens continue to move out of New York and now call North Carolina home, he said. Millions of dollars of misleading, taxpayer-subsidized commercials nor an executive order will not stop this exodus. Governor Cuomo, our North Carolina borders are open and our citizens are hospitable. Play ball!?With Albany out, Duke released a schedule that had the school playing Marist on Nov. 12. An amended version issued roughly an hour later had a vacancy for that day and indicated that the Basketball Hall of Fame had notified Duke that its opponent has not yet been confirmed.Marist is still Dukes likely opponent for the Nov. 12 game. It is a private institution and wouldnt be affected by Gov. Cuomos deecision.dddddddddddd Neither would Syracuse, a private school in New York that competes against Duke in the ACC.Duke begins the season with two on-campus games in the Hall of Fame Tip-Off: the opener against Grand Canyon on Nov. 11 and the still-undetermined game the next day.Duke spokesman Cory Walton said tournament organizers are responsible for filling that opening. In addition to Duke, Marist, Grand Canyon and Albany, the remaining four schools in the tournament field are Cincinnati, Penn State, Rhode Island and Brown.Greg Procino, vice president of basketball operations for the Hall of Fame, said in a statement that his group is working with the other schools to reschedule the on-campus games and expects to have that completed in the next week.Duke, Cincinnati, Penn State and Rhode Island are the host schools for the on-campus rounds and are each contracted to have two home games, Procino said.The tournament schedule had been in place for about a year, so this was an unexpected turn of events, Procino said.The North Carolina law signed earlier this year by Gov. Pat McCrory -- known as House Bill 2 or HB2?-- requires transgender people to use restrooms corresponding to the sex on their birth certificates. It also excludes gender identity and sexual orientation from statewide anti-discrimination protections.It came in response to Charlotte leaders approval of a measure that allowed transgender people to use the restroom aligned with their gender identity. Supporters have defended the law as a commonsense measure that keeps men from using womens restrooms.It has led to a public and business backlash, with the NBA still weighing whether to move its All-Star Game?from Charlotte. The NCAA this spring announced a policy to require sites hosting or bidding on both its predetermined and merit-based events to show how they will provide an environment that is safe, healthy and free from discrimination.Information from ESPNs Andy Katz and The Associated Press was used in this report. ' ' '