By Jeremy Kahn
SAN FRANCISCO-When Tim Lincecum looks back on his night against the Atlanta Braves, he can stop watching in the top of the fifth inning.
Lincecum lasted just 4.1 innings, allowing four runs on eight hits, walking two and striking out five and the Braves put an end to the San Francisco Giants five-game winning streak with a 8-0 victory before 42,005, the 353rd consecutive sellout at AT&T Park.
Andrelton Simmons got the Braves on the board in the top of the second inning, as his ground ball up the middle went just underneath the glove of Brandon Crawford to score Nick Markakis and end Lincecum’s scoreless streak at 23 innings.
Williams Perez was masterful for the Braves, as he went seven innings, allowing zero runs on four hits, while walking four and striking out three.
Jace Peterson scored the Braves second run of the evening when Cameron Maybin drove him with a single in the top of the third inning.
Former Giants third baseman and the newly acquired Juan Uribe score the third run of the evening against his former team, as he scored on a single by Christian Betancourt.
Peterson scored the Braves fourth of the night, as he scored on a Freddie Freeman single in the top of the fifth inning.
Uribe scored his second run of the night in the top of the eighth inning, as Simmons singled for the second time on the evening.
Maybin drove in his second run of the night in the top of the ninth inning when he singled in Peterson from third base, after Peterson tripled off his third hit of the night.
Uribe put the final runs on the board with one swing of the bat, as he hit a two-run home run into the left field bleachers.
