Tuesday was just about as good as it was long for the Braves, who came away with a sweep and a revelation in their doubleheader against the New York Mets at Turner Field.

After Tom Glavine notched his 305th win in the 6-1 afternoon victory, Jorge Campillo earned his first major-league win with six splendid innings of three-hit ball and seven strikeouts in a 6-2 victory in the nightcap.

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Tom Glavine showed his former team what its missing, with a solid performance in Tuesday's win over the Mets.

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Brian McCann hit a two-run homer in the first game, and Mark Kotsay hit a two-run shot in the eighth inning of the nightcap as the Braves got their first doubleheader sweep since 2005 and improved to 17-3 in their past 20 home games.

Mark Teixeira had four hits and three walks in the two games, and Kelly Johnson added a two-run triple in the nightcap for the Braves, who are 5-2 against the Mets this season and moved ahead of them in the National League East standings.

The day's only negative — potentially a big one — for the Braves came on the final play of the night, when shortstop Yunel Escobar hurt his right knee on a takeout slide by Ryan Church.

Church was out at second on the play and briefly out cold after his head hit Escobar's knee, which was heavily iced afterward, as was the shortstop's left hamstring.

"No DL," Escobar said before limping to the training room. "Tomorrow."

The Cuban shortstop meant he would play Wednesday in the third game of the four-game series agains the Mets, but manager Bobby Cox wasn't so sure. Cox said he didn't know yet if the injury might cause Escobar to miss any games.

"But Campillo's the story of the second game," said Cox, eager to discuss the performance of the obscure former eight-year veteran of the Mexican Leagues.

Cox said Campillo's outing likely earned him another start Saturday on three days' rest against Arizona. The Braves had considered Class AAA prospect Charlie Morton for that start, but Campillo convinced them it wouldn't be necessary.

"I think this is the biggest thing that ever happened to me playing baseball," Campillo said through a translator, after pitching twice as many innings as he'd worked in any of his 13 relief appearances this season.

With two games left in this four-game series with New York (22-21), the Braves (24-21) moved into a second-place tie with Philadelphia, 1 1/2 games behind Florida. The Mets have lost 10 of their past 18 games.

The Braves are 19-12 since April 17, including 11 wins in their past 12 home games at Turner Field to improve their league-best home record to 18-5. Their 6-16 road record is the worst in the majors.

They've long expected good things from Glavine (2-1), and the 42-year-old delivered with six strong innings, retiring the last 17 batters he faced after giving up a run, three hits and a walk in the first inning.

But Campillo? The soft-spoken 29-year-old moved from the bullpen to make just his second major league start and first since his 2005 rookie season with Seattle. He lasted one inning in that first start before a major elbow injury.

Campillo turned in a sublime performance Tuesday after a 1-hour, 39-minute rain delay before the first pitch. He had seven strikeouts with no walks and fired 54 strikes in 78 pitches to whittle his ERA to 0.99.

"He's been there all year for us," Kotsay said of Campillo, who might shed the emergency starter label after spending two months shaking the journeyman tag. "Obviously giving us six innings tonight was huge."

It was another chapter in the dropped-from-the-skies success story of Campillo, who signed with the Braves as a minor-league free agent on Dec. 26.

The Braves' bullpen ran its scoreless streak to 20 innings before Blaine Boyer was charged with two runs in the seventh inning of the nightcap.

What remained of a crowd of 25,590 was getting a bit antsy with the lead down to 4-2, but hot-hitting Kotsay belted a two-run homer in the eighth inning.

For Glavine, it was his first start against the Mets since spending the past five seasons with them. He blamed adrenaline for his first-inning struggles, not the sore right knee that's bothered him for a couple of weeks.

He gave up a homer to spray-hitting Luis Castillo — just his second in his past 230 games — before getting out of a first-inning bases-loaded jam.

"I would never in my wildest dreams expect to have 17-up, 17-down after what I did in the first inning," said Glavine, who had only six days between his 304th and 305th wins, after needing 10 starts and eight months to get past No. 303.