San Francisco 5, Atlanta 3
When: 10:15 PM ET, Friday, August 24, 2012
Where: AT&T Park, San Francisco, California
Temperature:
58°
Umpires:
Home -
Rob Drake, 1B -
Joe West, 2B -
Sam Holbrook, 3B -
Andy Fletcher
Attendance:
41486
By SportsDirect Inc.
Giants 5, Braves 3: Red-hot Angel Pagan tripled and doubled among his four hits and Ryan Vogelsong overcame a shaky start to pitch 6 1/3 solid innings as host San Francisco matched a season high with its fifth straight victory.
Pagan's two-out RBI triple in the fourth inning broke a 2-2 tie as the National League West-leading Giants won for the 10th time in 13 games. Pagan is 18-for-35 during his eight-game hitting streak.
Freddie Freeman homered twice and Jason Heyward also went deep for the Braves, who lost for the sixth time in seven contests.
Vogelsong (11-7) halted a two-game losing streak during which he pitched a combined 5 2/3 innings. He yielded three runs, four hits and struck out five Friday.
Atlanta's Ben Sheets (4-4) lost his third straight start and fourth in his last five. He yielded four runs and nine hits in 4 1/3 innings.
Heyward and Freeman homered in the first and second innings, respectively, to give Atlanta a 2-0 lead.
Pagan led off the third with a double and scored on a two-base hit by Pablo Sandoval, who tied the game when he scored on Sheets' wild pitch.
Marco Scutaro singled following Pagan's triple to put San Francisco in front 4-2.
Buster Posey, who missed the last two games with a hamstring injury, doubled off third baseman Chipper Jones' glove in the sixth to give the Giants a 5-2 lead.
Freeman's second homer, which bounced off the top of the right field wall and into McCovey Cove, made it 5-3 and chased Vogelsong.
Javier Lopez came on to strike out Heyward to end the eighth before retiring Jones, Freeman and Brian McCann in the ninth to earn his fourth save.
GAME NOTEBOOK: The Braves have scored 17 runs in their last seven games. ... San Francisco's Hunter Pence went 1-for-4 with two strikeouts and has fanned 28 times in 91 at-bats over 23 games since being acquired from Philadelphia. ... Pagan, who recorded his second four-hit game of the season, has scored 12 runs during his hitting streak.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Atlanta |
|
San Francisco |
|
Ben Sheets |
Player |
Ryan Vogelsong
|
|
Loss |
W/L |
Win |
|
4.1 |
IP |
6.1 |
|
2 |
Strikeouts |
5 |
|
9 |
Hits |
4 |
|
8.31 |
ERA |
4.26 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Atlanta
|
6 |
3 |
15 |
.188 |
8 |
7 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
| San Francisco
|
14 |
0 |
20 |
.412 |
25 |
6 |
4 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
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