Mike Yastrzemski plates three in Giants' win over Braves to snap month-long slump
In the fourth inning, Mike Yastrzemski dug Spencer Strider's slider out of the bottom of the zone and put it into the right-field corner.
For Yaz, it was a long time coming, but as the ball ricocheted off the wall, it gave plenty of time for Wilmer Flores and Matt Chapman to score the game-tying runs that buoyed the San Francisco Giants ' 4-3 win over the Atlanta Braves on Sunday afternoon.
The win secured a series sweep with their seventh-straight game decided by one run, but it was also a breakthrough game for a struggling Yastrzemski. The two-run double was his first hit with runners in scoring position since May 4 against the Colorado Rockies. Earlier, he collected his first RBI since that same date with a sacrifice fly to get San Francisco on the board.
Over more than a month since, going back to May 5, Yastrzemski was batting .167, pushing him from the top of the lineup down to the bottom. In need of a mental breather, manager Bob Melvin kept him out of the starting lineup entirely for two games against two right-handed starters in last week's series against the Padres.
It marked a sharp reversal of fortune for Yastrzemski, who had been one of the engines that propelled them offensively during the Giants' hot April.
Yastrzemski's fourth-inning double erased a two-run deficit that was all Matt Olson's doing against Landen Roupp. Olson's two-run double in the third inning was the Braves' big hit of the day.
Roupp managed to get through six innings, allowing three runs with two walks and two strikeouts.
On fire: Shortly before 11 a.m. and before gates opened to fans, a grease fire broke out at the Korean chicken sandwich concession stand Fuku on the main concourse at Oracle Park.
Smoke from the flames triggered alarms around the ballpark, including in the home clubhouse, prompting the Giants' players to evacuate onto the field for several minutes.
In a post on 'X,' the San Francisco Fire Department said the fire was 'confined to the cooking area' and extinguished with no reported injuries and that ballpark staff were also evacuated.
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