Robbie Ray allowed just one run over a season-high-tying eight innings, Luis Arraez scored one run and drove in another and the San Francisco Giants completed a series win over the visiting Atlanta Braves with a 3-2 victory Sunday afternoon.
Ray (7-6) won a pitchers’ duel with Atlanta’s Chris Sale (8-6), who matched zeroes with his fellow left-hander until two Braves errors in the sixth inning helped produce the game’s first two runs.
Arraez and Heliot Ramos, returning from the injured list, led off the sixth with singles before Atlanta third baseman Austin Riley threw wildly on a Rafael Devers infield hit, allowing Arraez to score.
Sale struck out the next two batters, but Jung Hoo Lee then duplicated Devers’ feat with an infield hit, this one toward second baseman Ozzie Albies, whose throw was late and off line, sending Ramos home.
Sale was pulled at inning’s end, having allowed two runs (one earned) and eight hits. He walked one and struck out 10.
The Giants tacked on what proved to be a critical third run in the seventh against the Atlanta bullpen when Drew Gilbert singled, Matt Chapman doubled and Arraez lifted a sacrifice fly to right field.
Ray took a shutout into the eighth, then allowed an unearned run on a sacrifice fly by Michael Harris II. It scored Eli White, who had reached base to open the inning on a fielding error by Chapman at third.
Seeking to avoid a 1-5 trip to San Diego and San Francisco, the Braves got within 3-2 in the ninth when Matt Olson greeted Caleb Kilian with a double and scored on a pair of infield outs.
Atlanta got the potential tying run to second base on a two-out single by Dominic Smith and a stolen base by pinch-runner Jorge Mateo. But Kilian struck out pinch hitter Mike Yastrzemski to nail down his sixth save.
Ray allowed just the one unearned run and four hits in his eight innings. He walked one and struck out two.
Arraez and Chapman had two hits apiece for the Giants, who completed a 4-2 homestand by taking two apiece from the Athletics and Braves. San Francisco outhit the visitors 10-6.
Olson had three of Atlanta’s hits. He, teammate Mauricio Dubon and Chapman had the only extra-base hits of the afternoon, each with a double.
