NEW YORK — Before the New York Mets snapped their five-game losing streak Wednesday, A.J. Minter contemplated sparks.Minter knows how a season can pivot. Five years ago, his Atlanta Braves were stuck below .500 into August and beset by injuries. A series of small additions at the trade deadline created a cascade reaction that propelled Atlanta on a second-half run and, ultimately, an unexpected championship.“(It was) kind of like here,” he said. “We’re waiting for that one little spark. Anything can set this team into motion and get things going in the right direction.”And to Minter, there were obvious candidates to strike the flint.“These young guys,” he said, looking in the direction of Carson Benge and A.J. Ewing, “we’ve seen it. They’ve provided that little bit of a spark and showed these old guys how to have fun playing. We’re seeing it.”Wednesday’s 4-2 win over the Cincinnati Reds was not one you circle in the moment as a season saver. There was no big comeback. There was no massive positive development. There wasn’t even crisp baseball; New York pitchers walked nine batters and committed a costly error.But in baseball, a turnaround is built less on the sharp 180 than on small turns toward the proper direction. This win was one of them, led by New York’s youth.The key figure was Carson Benge. He came in clean-shaven, his mustache collateral to a 1-for-18 skid. But a warning-track flyout in the third looked better, and with two outs and two on in the fifth, Benge battled Cincinnati starter Andrew Abbott for eight pitches before lining a run-scoring single to left.