Braves 5, Giants 0: Mike Minor pitched 6 2/3 shutout innings and visiting Atlanta scored three times in the sixth to even the three-game series.

Freddie Freeman finished 2-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBIs for the Braves, who had scored three runs or less in 12 of their previous 14 contests. Minor (1-2) retired 16 in a row in one stretch, allowing three hits with two walks and six strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings.

Ryan Vogelsong (1-2) tied a career high with eight strikeouts, but surrendered four runs on seven hits with one walk in six innings. Hunter Pence went 2-for-4 with two doubles as the Giants were shut out for just the second time this season.

Evan Gattis’ triple to the right-center field gap scored Freeman in the fourth to put the Braves ahead 1-0. Heyward led off the sixth with a single and later scored on Freeman’s single to right, eluding Buster Posey’s tag attempt after Pence’s throw easily beat Heyward to the plate.

Heyward’s play seemed to jump-start the Braves as B.J. Upton lined a two-out single to center to plate Freeman and Andrelton Simmons’ single brought home Chris Johnson to give Atlanta a 4-0 advantage. Minor fanned Posey with runners on second and third to end the sixth, and the Braves added a fifth run on Freeman’s fielder’s choice in the seventh, a play overturned by replay after Freeman originally was ruled out to end the inning.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Atlanta 2B Tyler Pastornicky snapped a string of 28 hitless at-bats by Braves’ second baseman with a seventh-inning single and later scored on the overturned call. … Pence has hit safely in 16 of his past 21 games (.321) with six doubles, two triples and a homer. … Gattis’ triple was the first of his major-league career.