SAN FRANCISCO — Mike Yastrzemski drove in three runs as the San Francisco Giants extended their winning streak to five games with a 4-3 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Sunday.
The Giants swept the three-game series at Oracle Park and sent the Braves to their seventh straight loss. Atlanta, which started this season 0-7, has lost 14 of its past 17 games and fell to 27-37, a season-low 10 games under .500.
All of the wins in the Giants’ current streak have been by a single run, and the hot stretch comes after back-to-back one-run losses in 10-inning games.
San Francisco trailed 3-1 in the fourth inning Sunday when Yastrzemski sparked a three-run inning for the hosts. He tied the game with a two-out, two-run double down the right-field line and scored on an error by second baseman Ozzie Albies, who couldn’t handle a ground ball by Tyler Fitzgerald.
Yastrzemski also had a sacrifice fly in the second inning that tied the game at 1 after the Braves scored in the first. He entered the game hitless in his past 17 at-bats with runners in scoring position.