MET NOTES

Even if yesterday’s game came in the middle of a playoff series, Carlos Beltran didn’t think he would’ve played.

Beltran, who strained his right hamstring on Saturday, missed yesterday’s 9-3 victory over Milwaukee and doesn’t know when he’ll be back. He said he would “see how it feels” before tonight’s game with Atlanta.

“I don’t feel 100 percent,” he said. “Last year, I hurt my quad and I tried to play through it and it didn’t really help me.

“I feel like for me to come back and play again, I want to make sure I can go out there and play 100 percent.”

In the third inning on Saturday, Beltran felt his right hamstring tighten as he left the batter’s box to run out a grounder to first. The hamstring tightened near the back of his knee during the game, and he told manager Willie Randolph, who lifted him in the top of the ninth.

When he woke up yesterday morning, the hamstring was sore. Beltran was checked out Saturday afternoon by a team doctor, who said the ailment wasn’t serious.

“He said it’s nothing major,” Beltran said, “but at the same time, he said, ‘You’ve got to be smart, and not make something major out of it. You go out there and you try to play, and you might aggravate it and pull it hard.’ ”

Beltran has been taking anti-inflammatory medication but didn’t have an MRI. Endy Chavez started in center and batted seventh, going 0-for-3 with a run. Carlos Delgado moved up to third, and David Wright batted cleanup.

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The Mets are off to the best start in franchise history, and this is the first time they’d ever won four straight series to start the year.

Delgado, though, isn’t staring at the standings.

“I guess if I’m looking at the standings in April, I’ll be driving myself crazy by June,” Delgado said.

Similarly, former Brave Tom Glavine isn’t making a big deal of the upcoming Atlanta series.

“I’m more worried about doing it in October than April,” Glavine said.

Cliff Floyd, though, knows the NL East ultimately goes through Georgia.

“We know we are chasing them because they have won,” Floyd said. “Until you beat them, you are still going to be behind them.”

Additional reporting by Andrew Marchand.