ATLANTA – Pitching on three days’ rest for the first time in a regular season game, Tim Hudson threw eight shutout innings to lift the Atlanta Braves past Tom Glavine and the Mets 4-0 last night.

Johnny Estrada had three hits for the Braves, who led 1-0 before scoring three runs off Glavine (3-5) in the seventh inning.

Hudson (5-3) had to pitch through jams early, stranding seven base runners in the first four innings. But Hudson allowed only one hit over his last four innings. He allowed six hits and two walks and struck out three.

The two times Hudson pitched on three days’ rest were in the postseason with Oakland. He was 0-1 with a 4.15 ERA in those starts.

Hudson’s start was pushed up after the Braves placed starting pitchers John Thomson and Mike Hampton on the disabled list in the last seven days.

Glavine, frustrated again by his former team, allowed seven hits and four runs in 6 2 /3 innings.

Glavine, who won 242 games with the Braves and then signed with the Mets as a free agent before the 2003 season, has only one win in nine career starts against Atlanta. He is 0-2 against the Braves this season and 1-8 overall.

The Mets stranded two runners in each of the first three innings.

With runners on first and third in the first, Hudson escaped by striking out Cliff Floyd and Mike Piazza.

Piazza struck out – this time looking – to end the third with runners on first and second. Before leaving the batter’s box, Piazza drew a line in the dirt with his bat to show he thought the pitch was inside.

Glavine allowed one hit – a second inning bloop single by Estrada – through the first four innings.

The Braves took a 1-0 lead in the fifth when Raul Mondesi led off with an infield single, moved to second on Estrada’s second hit of the game and scored on Ryan Langerhans’s one-out single up the middle. Langerhans ended an 0-for-20 slump with the run-scoring single.

Hudson attempted a suicide squeeze but Glavine fielded the bunt and threw out Estrada at the plate. On the play, Glavine landed awkwardly on his right wrist but was able to remain in the game.

Mondesi beat out another infield hit to open the seventh inning, and Estrada followed with a run-scoring double down the left-field line for a 2-0 lead.

Estrada moved to third on a sacrifice by Wilson Betemit and, following a walk by Langerhans, scored on Hudson’s groundout to third. Glavine was lifted after giving up a triple to Rafael Furcal that drove in Langerhans for a 4-0 lead.

Reliever Heath Bell struck out Marcus Giles to end the inning.

Mets first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz hit eighth in the lineup for the first time this season.