Atlanta 6, San Francisco 3
When: 1:35 PM ET, Sunday, August 8, 2010
Where: Turner Field, Atlanta, Georgia
Temperature:
90°
Umpires:
Home -
Angel Campos, 1B -
CB Bucknor, 2B -
Doug Eddings, 3B -
Dana DeMuth
Attendance:
33865
By SportsDirect Inc.
Derek Lowe pitched 5 1/3 effective innings and David Ross homered as the Atlanta Braves held on for a 6-3 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Sunday.
Omar Infante also homered for Atlanta, which improved to 39-15 at Turner Field. The Braves lead the Philadelphia Phillies by two games in the National League East.
Melky Cabrera, Brooks Conrad and Alex Gonzalez each drove in a run for Atlanta, which avoided losing a series at home for only the second time this season.
The win was tempered by the fact that Lowe (11-9) left the game in the sixth inning with an apparent leg injury. The right-hander had allowed two runs and five hits when he departed. Atlanta also had a 5-2 lead when Lowe was pulled.
Travis Ishikawa’s third homer of the season off Peter Moylan in the seventh cut the lead to 5-3, but Jonny Venters, Kyle Farnsworth and Takashi Saito held the Giants to two hits over the final 2 2/3 innings.
Filling in for Billy Wagner, Saito worked around a one-out double in the ninth for his first save of the season.
The Braves chased Giants’ starter Jonathan Sanchez (8-7) after just four innings. Ross’ two-run homer in the second put Atlanta ahead for good and Gonzalez added a sacrifice fly in the frame to make it 3-1.
Infante homered in the fourth and Conrad added an RBI single in the fifth off Todd Wellemeyer.
Sanchez allowed four runs and five hits in four innings.
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| San Francisco
|
8 |
1 |
14 |
.242 |
13 |
7 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
| Atlanta
|
12 |
2 |
19 |
.364 |
20 |
6 |
6 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
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