LAWRENCEVILLE  ­— The latest step in Jair Jurrjens’ rehab is complete. Now all the injured Braves pitcher has to do is wait for management to sign off on his return to Atlanta.

After Monday’s performance, Jurrjens said he’s on target to make a return to the Atlanta starting rotation on Saturday when the Braves host the New York Mets.

With manager Fredi Gonzalez and pitching coach Roger McDowell sitting four rows behind home plate, Jurrjens gave up two runs on four hits in six innings in the Gwinnett Braves’ 8-3 win Monday against the Norfolk Tides.

“I hope I showed them I’m healthy,” said Jurrjens, who threw 81 pitches, 48 for strikes, to earn the win in front of a sparse crowd at Coolray Field. “It’s up to them (to decide) what they want to do. I’m ready to go.”

Gonzalez and McDowell were unavailable to comment on the 25-year-old right-hander, who has been on the disabled list since late March with an injured oblique. Jurrjens, who was pitching against live competition for the first time since March 18, said he believed he only threw two bad pitches all night —  one on an RBI double to Nick Green in the second inning, and the other on a solo home run to Nolan Riemold in the fourth inning.

“I felt good,” said Jurrjens, who had two walks and three strikeouts before exiting the game after Gwinnett (3-2) took a 6-2 lead. “I didn’t think about (the injury).

Jurrjens struggled early, but he got into a groove after Josh Bell’s triple that followed Riemold’s home run.

With his pitch count hovering around 60, Jurrjens retired the final nine batters he faced.

“The last three innings, I settled down and tried to hit my spots,” he said.

G-Braves manager Dave Brundage said Jurrjens’ off-speed pitches were better and did a nice job of keeping the ball down in the zone during his final three innings.

“I thought he looked good,” Brundage said. “He had a little bit of bad luck (on Green’s double), but I thought he looked stronger later in his outing.”

Despite playing in front of a crowd of just 1,846 fans, Jurrjens said he approached his latest, and hopefully final rehab start as if he were pitching in the much larger Turner Field.

“I tried to take the game serious, and take it like I’m pitching in the big leagues,” said Jurrjens, who consistently hit between 91-93 on the stadium’s radar gun.

“That’s the hardest I’ve been throwing since spring training,” he added. “(Everything is) back to normal.”

Trailing by two, the G-Braves tied the game in the fourth inning on a two-run double by Ed Lucas that scored Jordan Schafer and Willie Cabrera. Gwinnett took the lead for good on a three-run home run by Mauro Gomez in the bottom of the sixth inning. Wilken Ramirez followed Gomez with a solo home run to give the G-Braves a 6-2 lead. Those two home runs were the first of the year for both players.

Ramirez hit his second home run of the night and season in the eighth inning to put a stamp on the 8-3 win.

Jurrjens hopes the next time he helps lead his team to a win it will be wearing an Atlanta jersey, something he hasn’t done since being scratched from a Sept. 20 start because of a knee injury suffered in a bullpen session on Sept. 17.

“Since we got to the playoffs, I’ve been excited to return to the mound,” Jurrjens said.

The Gwinnett Braves host Norfolk in Game 2 of the three-game series at 7:05 p.m. Tuesday. The Atlanta Braves begin a three-game series with the Florida Marlins at 7:05 p.m. Tuesday at Turner Field in Atlanta.