The Giants (71-59) took out their frustrations on the Braves woebegone pitching staff. Denard Span added a solo homer and Eduardo Nez also went deep, giving the Giants their first four-homer game at AT&T Park in six years. Blair went 2-4 with a 5.98 ERA and.313 opponents’ batting average in nine starts for Gwinnett, but struck out 45 against 24 walks and three homers in 49 2/3 innings.Bumgarner has struggled since the All-Star break, going 2-4 with a 3.71 ERA and allowing nine runs on 15 hits with four walks in 10 innings across his past two starts.
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The Giants have placed right-hander Jake Peavy on the 15-day disabled list with a lower back strain.
“You’ve got to stay with him, keep working with him”, Snitker said.
The Giants had not had four home runs and four triples in one game since at least 1900. “It’s always good to beat this team, quiet the crowd down”.
Adonis Garcia bounced a single through the left side. Freddie Freeman followed with a double, and Kemp came to the plate with runners at second and third with nobody out.
“It was a combination of getting some good counts where I can be aggressive and just not missing those spots”, Panik said. “Then in the fourth it was one pitch and he put a good swing on it as he lifted it up”. I threw a fastball. It was supposed to be outside and it wasn’t. “It seemed I got to ball one on every hitter”.
San Francisco fell to 13-26 since the All-Star break, the worst record in the majors over that stretch. This will be Whalen’s first career game against the Giants. But while the Dodgers were beating the NL Central-leading Chicago Cubs on Saturday, the Giants were losing for a third time this season to the last-place Braves.
Panik s second home run, his 10 of the season, was a two-run shot in the fourth inning.
The game had gotten off to a promising start for the Braves when Inciarte tripled leading off the first.
Jim Johnson pitched a flawless ninth for his 13th save.
With a severely depleted lineup and a substitute starter on the mound, the Giants were subdued 3-1 at AT&T Park Saturday night by an unheralded young righthander named Mike Foltynewicz and an Atlanta Braves team that had lost 10 of its last 13. “Just to take any series”, Giants manager Bruce Bochy noted. “It’s very impressive where it landed”.
Giants: 1B Brandon Belt was in the lineup after being a late scratch Saturday because of a stiff neck. Belt came off the bench to pinch-hit in the eighth and struck out against Foltynewicz.
Span, Parker and Brandon Belt added two hits each for San Francisco, which had 11 extra-bats hits in a game for the first time since 2002. Peavy’s move to the DL is retroactive to August 21. Bochy said Pence also underwent an MRI before Saturday’s game but indicated it was precautionary. Bochy said he hopes Pence will be ready to return for the start of the Arizona series on Tuesday. In a corresponding move, Albert Suarez will make the move back to San Francisco after being recalled from Triple-A Sacramento. He’s expected to slot into the fifth spot in the rotation the next time it comes up on September 2.
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NOTES: In order to create a roster spot for RHP Aaron Blair, the Braves optioned RHP John Gant to Triple-A Gwinett before Sunday’s game. Blair is 0-5 with a 7.99 ERA in 11 starts with the Braves. Madison Bumgarner takes the hill, and he’s 12-8 with a 2.44 ERA and 202 strikeouts this season.
