Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
San Francisco 10, Atlanta 4
When: 3:45 PM ET, Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Where: AT&T Park, San Francisco, California
Temperature: 79°
Umpires: Home - Lance Barrett, 1B - Dana DeMuth, 2B - Ron Kulpa, 3B - Ed Hickox
Attendance: 41253

Giants 10, Braves 4: Hunter Pence belted a solo homer among his four hits and knocked in three as San Francisco outlasted visiting Atlanta to take two of three in the series.

Brandon Crawford collected three hits, including a two-run homer, and knocked in three runs while Pablo Sandoval added two hits and an RBI for the Giants. Madison Bumgarner (5-3) battled through five innings, allowing four runs on seven hits with five strikeouts to win his third straight start.

Chris Johnson recorded a pair of doubles and knocked in two runs while Tyler Pastornicky added two hits for the Braves. Atlanta’s Julio Teheran (2-3), who had gone at least six innings in his first eight starts, yielded five runs (four earned), seven hits and five walks in only 3 1/3 frames.

Freddie Freeman and Johnson collected RBI doubles in the first inning, but Pence’s two-run blast to right and a run-scoring single by Crawford gave the Giants a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the frame. Johnson delivered another RBI double and scored on Andrelton Simmons’ triple to tie the game 4-4 in the fourth.

Sandoval’s RBI single put San Francisco back in front in the bottom of the fourth before Gregor Blanco and Pence each delivered run-scoring singles in the fifth for a 7-4 advantage. Michael Morse gave the Giants more cushion with his ninth homer of the season in the sixth before Crawford’s fifth homer to right in the eighth.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Blanco also walked twice, scored three runs and stole his second, third and fourth bases of the season for the Giants. … Atlanta fell to 14-1 when scoring the game’s first run and the Giants improved to 7-11 when allowing the first. … Braves CF B.J. Upton was thrown out of the game by home plate umpire Lance Barrett in the sixth inning for arguing balls and strikes.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Atlanta   San Francisco
Julio Teheran Player Madison Bumgarner
Loss W/L Win
3.1 IP 5.0
4 Strikeouts 5
7 Hits 7
10.80 ERA 7.20
Hitting
Atlanta   San Francisco
Chris Johnson Player Hunter Pence
2 Hits 4
2 RBI 3
0 HR 1
4 TB 7
.667 Avg .800
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Atlanta 7 0 13 .212 13 8 4 2 0 1
San Francisco 15 3 26 .385 20 10 9 6 3 0