One night after blowing a lead, the Milwaukee Brewers handled the late innings perfectly.

Lyle Overbay singled home two runs in the ninth, and the Brewers rallied after Pedro Martinez left to beat the Mets 6-4 last night.

Bill Hall homered in the seventh to end Martinez’s most dominant stretch of the game and Carlos Lee added a tying shot in the eighth for the Brewers, who couldn’t hold a four-run lead in Tuesday’s 11-inning loss but rallied against the Mets’ bullpen yesterday.

With two outs in the ninth, Wes Helms reached on an infield single against Mets closer Braden Looper and Brady Clark singled. Looper walked Rickie Weeks, loading the bases, before Overbay singled up the middle for a 6-4 lead.

Rick Helling worked the eighth for his first major league win since September 20, 2003. Derrick Turnbow, who gave up Mike Cameron’s tying homer in the ninth Tuesday, bounced back to retire Carlos Beltran with runners at second and third for his 22nd save in 25 chances.

Cliff Floyd and Mike Piazza homered for the Mets, who lost for the second time in nine home games. David Wright had a two-run single but committed an error to start the ninth.

Martinez settled down after a rocky start and left with a 4-3 lead after allowing eight hits in seven innings. He struck out eight, raising his NL-leading total to 163, but Roberto Hernandez gave up Lee’s 27th homer with one out in the eighth.

Hernandez and Looper each pitched two innings Tuesday, but Mets manager Willie Randolph didn’t think that was the reason for their ineffectiveness.

“They were ready to pitch. They told me before the game they were ready,” Randolph said. “That’s the life of a reliever. It was a big game for us, they were ready to go.”

The Brewers went up 2-0 in the second. Lee led off with a double, and Damian Miller lined a two-out RBI double to right-center. J.J. Hardy singled to center on the next pitch to score Miller.

The Mets answered in the bottom half when Floyd led off with his 25th homer, a drive estimated at 420 feet that appeared to bounce off the top of the home run apple in center field.

Piazza fouled off three 3-2 pitches in the fourth before sending a drive over the left-field bleachers, tying it at 2 and earning another curtain call – as he has done after each of his recent homers at Shea Stadium.

Martinez kept the Brewers in check from there, allowing just one hit and striking out six between the third and sixth. He fanned four straight in the fifth and sixth, including Overbay, Lee, and Geoff Jenkins – the middle of Milwaukee’s order.

Wright’s two-run single in the fifth gave the Mets a 4-2 lead, but the Brewers got a big run in the seventh on Hall’s homer leading off the inning. Milwaukee got two more hits in the inning before Martinez retired Weeks with two on.