ATLANTA — Freddie Freeman hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning off Dillon Gee, giving the Atlanta Braves a stunning 2-1 victory over the New York Mets on Monday night in a game that was delayed nearly four hours by rain. Gee (5-7) totally shut down the Braves until the ninth, when Justin Upton singled with one out before Freeman launched a towering drive into the right-field seats on a 2-2 pitch to end a game that didn't start until nearly 11 p.m. Until then, Gee had allowed only two runners as far as second base. David Carpenter (1-0) earned the win with a scoreless ninth. Tim Hudson worked seven innings for the Braves, allowing only Gee's RBI single with two outs in the seventh. Rain pushed back the first pitch 3 hours, 43 minutes — the long delay coming at a most inopportune time with the teams facing a day-night doubleheader Tuesday to make up a game that was rained out on May 4. But at least the Mets got this one in. Not even midway through the season, they've already had six games postponed by inclement weather. The announced crowd of 22,048 appeared to be less than 10,000 by the time the game finally started, and dwindled even more before it ended at 1:22 a.m., less than 12 hours before the scheduled start of the doubleheader at 1:10 p.m. on Tuesday. Freeman's homer denied Gee his first career shutout. The Mets starter allowed just five hits. Hudson pitched around trouble until the seventh. New York pushed runners into scoring position four times in the first six innings, but Hudson escaped three times with strikeouts, the other time with a double play. Finally, New York broke through. John Buck led off the seventh with a single and scored from second when Gee grounded a single to left with two outs. Until the ninth, Atlanta's only serious scoring threat against Gee came in the second, when Freeman led off with a double into the right-field corner. Evan Gattis grounded out, B.J. Upton flied out and Dan Uggla whiffed to end the inning. Chris Johnson walked with one out in the eighth and moved to second on a groundout, but Andrelton Simmons bounced out weakly to second base to end that threat. Lucas Duda started at first base and got four hits, after the Mets reversed course on moving him from the outfield to his more natural position. They feared using Duda at first might send the wrong message to former starter Ike Davis, who's been demoted to Triple-A to try to work out of a massive slump. Clearly, the move agreed with Duda, who had four hits in a game for the third time in his career. The last came on Sept. 16, 2011, against the Braves in Atlanta. The storms approached late in the afternoon, bringing out the tarp and cutting short batting practice. Fans scurried for cover as the skies darkened and heavy rain fell for at least an hour. About 45 minutes after the scheduled first pitch, the rain let up. The crowd cheered when the grounds crew ran on the field to sponge off the tarp and pull it into the outfield, but their hopes of getting started were quickly dashed. Radar showed another thick line of storms moving in from the west, so Braves officials held off on starting the game. What remained of the sparse crowd had to pass the time by watching coverage of the Philadelphia-Washington game on the big video board in center field. That game ended before this one even started, as did every contest on the East Coast. After another round of showers, the Braves optimistically announced the game would begin at 10:05 p.m. The tarp was removed, the players warmed up, the lineups were announced, and a choir came out to belatedly sing the national anthem. But the rain picked up again, and the tarp had to be put back on. Finally, at 10:53 p.m., Hudson threw the first pitch to Juan Lagares. NOTES: The Braves plan to add RHP Cory Rasmus to their roster as an extra player for Tuesday's doubleheader. The Mets will boost their roster to 26 players by activating RHP Scott Atchison. ... Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said baseball's decision before the 2012 season to allow teams to add an extra player for day-night doubleheaders "is one of the best moves they've ever done." ... Mets reserve INF Justin Turner was late joining the team in Atlanta after staying behind in New York to get an MRI. He's had a ribcage problem for several days and might have to go on the disabled list, according to manager Terry Collins.

OMAHA, Neb. — This wasn’t the ending Louisville imagined for the best sports year in university history. The mistake-prone Cardinals surrendered seven runs in the fourth inning on their way to an 11-4 loss to No. 3 national seed Oregon State that eliminated them from the College World Series on Monday. The Cardinals (51-14) committed four errors against the Beavers and 13 in their last six games. The Beavers (51-12) play another elimination game Wednesday against Mississippi State or Indiana. Louisville was making its second appearance at the CWS, and first since 2007. “This is very tough at this moment, but I don’t want this game to define them or define their season,” Louisville coach Dan McDonnell said of his players. “I told them just what I told the ‘07 team: if our season had to end on a loss, I’d always want that loss to be in Omaha.” The University of Louisville has had a banner year in sports. The football team won the Sugar Bowl, the men’s basketball team won the national championship and the women’s basketball team was national runner-up. And the school landed a spot in the Atlantic Coast Conference, starting in 2014, leaving the crumbling Big East. “We came here with the expectation to win the whole thing, and that’s why it hurts,” McDonnell said. “I told the guys one day we will win a national championship at Louisville. The ‘07 team got us on the map and we’ve been in regionals six of the last seven years. This team made a strong statement I challenged them to leave their mark on Louisville baseball, and they did.” Louisville starter Jeff Thompson (11-2) lasted 3 2-3 innings, with three of the seven runs against him unearned. “I didn’t feel 100 percent, I guess you’d say, but I was still able to make effective pitches and keep the ball down. I was getting ground balls, but unfortunately, the ball just wasn’t going our way today.” Winning pitcher Ben Wetzler (10-1) allowed three runs in 6 1-3 innings. Oregon State scored the most runs allowed by Louisville this season. It was the highest-scoring game at the CWS in the three years it’s been played at TD Ameritrade Park. Oregon State capitalized on a hit batsman and two errors for a three-run third inning against Thompson, the Detroit Tigers’ third-round draft pick. Gordon was plunked leading off and scored from first when Tyler Smith doubled into the left-field corner. Peterson’s bunt single and a walk to Michael Conforto loaded the bases. Conforto should have been retired, but Louisville catcher Kyle Gibson dropped a high pop foul along the third-base line. Two runs came home when Cardinals second baseman Zach Lucas, after fielding a slow grounder, made a careless flip wide of shortstop Sutton Whiting. The Beavers all but finished off the Cards in the seven-run fourth, batting through their lineup for the 18th time this season and scoring all the runs with two outs. Dylan Davis just beat third baseman Ty Young’s throw on a bases-loaded chopper. Louisville first baseman Zak Wasserman, thinking Davis was out and the inning over, started jogging toward the dugout unaware that Peterson was coming around to score from second. Two more runs scored on Whiting’s overthrow of Wasserman, and reliever Kyle Funkhouser’s bases-loaded walk and Gordon’s single brought in three more. The Cardinals ranked a respectable 76th out of 296 Division I teams in fielding after the regular season, but they committed two or more errors in five of their last six games. “It’s not so much we’re looking back on the season, but the relationships built after a game like this,” junior center fielder Adam Engel said. “Some guys may be moving on to something different now. Pretty much the one thing on everybody’s mind is the relationships we’ve built since we’ve been here. That’s very special to us, and that’s something we’ll take with us forever.” Mississippi St. 5, Indiana 4 OMAHA, Neb. — Trey Porter drove in the go-ahead runs in the eighth inning, and Mississippi State took control of its bracket in the College World Series with a 5-4 victory over Indiana on Monday night. The Bulldogs (50-18) need one win to reach next week’s best-of-three finals. They’re off until Friday, when they’ll play Indiana (49-15) or Oregon State. The Bulldogs erased a 3-2 deficit in the eighth. Brett Pirtle beat Will Nolden’s throw home to tie it after DeMarcus Henderson smacked a one-out liner into right, and Porter sent Brian Korte’s 3-1 pitch into the right-center gap to score Wea Rea and Henderson for a two-run lead. Indiana got a run back in the ninth, but closer Jonathan Holder came on to get the last out in relief of Chad Girodo (9-1). Holder earned his 20th save. Ryan Halstead (4-5) took the loss.