ATLANTA -- Brandon Crawford's two-run, eighth-inning homer on Sunday sealed his first career multihomer game along with the Giants' 4-1 victory over the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field.Crawford, whose fourth-inning homer broke a 1-1 tie, padded San Francisco's lead by connecting off reliever Jordan Walden after Brandon Hicks drew a one-out walk. The Giants welcomed the variety provided by Crawford, since each of their previous 10 homers came with the bases empty. 
The victory was the Giants' ninth in their last 10 games and lengthened their winning streak to five. San Francisco dealt the Braves their sixth consecutive loss and completed its first sweep of a three-game series in this city since June 27-29, 1988. The Giants also recorded their initial three-game sweep at Turner Field, which opened in 1997.Madison Bumgarner (3-3) limited the Braves to an unearned run in six innings while ending a personal three-game losing streak.The Giants, who improved to 15-1 when they open the scoring, mustered a first-inning run without the aid of a homer. Hunter Pence doubled with one out, advanced to third base on Braves starter Alex Wood's wild pitch and came home on Buster Posey's groundout to first base. Atlanta catcher Evan Gattis committed catcher's interference as Posey swung, but under rule 6.08(c), manager Bruce Bochy had the option of declining the penalty and taking the play, to use football parlance.Pence's tally broke a streak of five consecutive runs scored by the Giants on solo home runs, all in this series' first two games.Bumgarner's rare sloppiness enabled the Braves to pull even in the third inning. After Ramiro Pena singled with one out, Bumgarner fielded Wood's sacrifice-bunt attempt and overthrew Hicks, who was covering first base. Pena sped to third and scored on Jason Heyward's sacrifice fly,The Giants snapped the tie with two outs in the fourth as Crawford drove Wood's 1-2 fastball over the right-center-field barrier for his second home run of the year. The left-handed-hitting Crawford fattened his batting average against left-handers to an impressive .438 (14-for-32).Chris Haft / MLB.com
The victory was the Giants' ninth in their last 10 games and lengthened their winning streak to five. San Francisco dealt the Braves their sixth consecutive loss and completed its first sweep of a three-game series in this city since June 27-29, 1988. The Giants also recorded their initial three-game sweep at Turner Field, which opened in 1997.Madison Bumgarner (3-3) limited the Braves to an unearned run in six innings while ending a personal three-game losing streak.The Giants, who improved to 15-1 when they open the scoring, mustered a first-inning run without the aid of a homer. Hunter Pence doubled with one out, advanced to third base on Braves starter Alex Wood's wild pitch and came home on Buster Posey's groundout to first base. Atlanta catcher Evan Gattis committed catcher's interference as Posey swung, but under rule 6.08(c), manager Bruce Bochy had the option of declining the penalty and taking the play, to use football parlance.Pence's tally broke a streak of five consecutive runs scored by the Giants on solo home runs, all in this series' first two games.Bumgarner's rare sloppiness enabled the Braves to pull even in the third inning. After Ramiro Pena singled with one out, Bumgarner fielded Wood's sacrifice-bunt attempt and overthrew Hicks, who was covering first base. Pena sped to third and scored on Jason Heyward's sacrifice fly,The Giants snapped the tie with two outs in the fourth as Crawford drove Wood's 1-2 fastball over the right-center-field barrier for his second home run of the year. The left-handed-hitting Crawford fattened his batting average against left-handers to an impressive .438 (14-for-32).Chris Haft / MLB.com
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