MET NOTES

ATLANTA – Although the Mets entered last night as baseball’s only winless team, manager Willie Randolph isn’t prepared to shake things up yet.

The Mets have scored just two runs in the last two games, but Randolph said after Friday night’s 3-1 loss to the Braves that he doesn’t plan to change his slumping lineup.

“Guys got a few at-bats under their belt. They’re still battling to get into a rhythm, a little groove,” Randolph said. “After four games you can’t assume that guys are swinging good or bad.”

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Before yesterday’s Yankees-Orioles game, Joe Torre spoke about the early-season struggles of his former bench coach (Randolph), noting that he thought it was important for the Mets to get off to a good start.

“I talked to him last week,” Torre said. “I didn’t bring him any luck last week. You have to make sure you have that good feeling, but it is tough to have the good feeling when you haven’t won a game yet. Knowing his personality, he probably is tongue-in-cheek with the players about the pressure being on them. It’s tough.”

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Today’s series finale features a terrific pitching matchup, pitting Pedro Martinez against John Smoltz. The Braves righty was pounded for six earned runs in 12/3 innings in his first outing of the year, but good friend Tom Glavine expects him to be ready to go today.

“He’s going to be determined to get things on track and to kind of get whatever nay-sayers there are off his back,” Glavine said on Friday. “What happened to him I don’t think is totally unexpected. I mean, the guy hasn’t started in five years [because he was the team’s closer] and I know he’s been looking forward to that for three months.”

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The Mets entered last night hitting just .212 (11-for-52) with men on base and .154 (4-for-26) with men in scoring position. . . . Jose Reyes on the 0-4 start: “Just four games, man. We’ve got a lot of games left. Nothing to worry about.”

-Additional reporting by Andrew Marchand