Rookie Kyle Davies was impressive in his home debut and the Atlanta Braves shut out the Mets for the second straight night, winning 3-0 to complete a three-game sweep last night.

After Tim Hudson pitched eight innings on three days’ rest in a 4-0 win Tuesday night, Davies’s second major league start also came on short rest as the Braves adjust to losing pitchers Mike Hampton and John Thomson to the disabled list.

Davies (2-0) pitched 5 1 /3 innings, giving up five hits and one walk. Chris Reitsma pitched two innings for his first save.

The Braves scored three times in the fifth inning off Mets starter Victor Zambrano (2-5), with two runs scoring on Zambrano’s throwing error.

The Mets fell to 20-48 at Turner Field, which opened in 1997. The Braves have won 24 of the last 31 games in Atlanta and are 7-2 overall against the Mets with three series wins this season.

With the sweep, the Braves bounced back from a 4-8 road trip that knocked them out of first place in the NL East. Atlanta has won eight straight at home, pushing its home record to 16-5.

After tossing six shutout innings, Davies was lifted after giving up a one out triple to Mike Cameron in the sixth. John Foster entered in relief, struck out Cliff Floyd, and ended the inning with a groundout by Mike Piazza.

Only one of the Braves’ three runs off Zambrano in the fifth inning was earned. Johnny Estrada led off the inning with a walk and moved to second on Ryan Langerhans’s single off the top of shortstop Jose Reyes’s glove. Pete Orr hit a soft grounder back to Zambrano, but Zambrano threw to third base before third baseman David Wright reached the bag. Orr ran to second as Estrada and Langerhans scored. Rafael Furcal added a run scoring single.

The Mets’ offensive frustrations continued in the seventh when they loaded the bases on three singles before Reyes hit into his second inning ending double play of the game.

The inability to deliver clutch hits also hurt New York early in the game. The Mets put runners on first and third with no outs in the third inning but couldn’t score. After Wright hit a leadoff double for the Mets’ first hit, Doug Mientkiewicz followed with a bloop single to left that fell in front of Orr when Orr appeared to pull up to avoid a possible collision with shortstop Furcal.

Zambrano then botched a bunt, popping out to Davies, for the first out. Davies ended the inning by starting a double play on a grounder by Reyes.

In the fourth inning, Cairo led off with a single and moved to third on Cameron’s walk and Floyd’s fly ball to right. Davies struck out Piazza and Marlon Anderson to end the inning.