Giants Take Three of Four from the Braves

            San Francisco Giants and Atlanta Braves players wore pink today to honor their mothers and breast cancer on Mother’s Day.

            Tim Lincecum took the hill for the Giants today and put together a wonderful outing, as the Giants won 5-1 to end a strong home stand.

            In the second inning, Brandon Belt homered off of Kris Medlen, and Pablo Sandoval and Marco Scutaro added two more solo-shots. Brandon Crawford singled in Brandon Belt in the fourth inning. Gregor Blanco stayed hot and doubled in a run in the fifth.

            Atlanta was not able to score off of Lincecum, and mustered their only run on an Evan Gattis double.

            Brave’s pitcher Kris Medlin is now 1-5 on the season, despite having only a 3.44 ERA. Atlanta cannot seem to score when he is on the bump.

            Lincecum put together his third quality start of the year, and gave up a season-low two hits after allowing 19 in his last two appearances.

            The Giants now travel to Toronto for a two game tilt with the Blue Jays and former Giants slugger Melky Cabrera. The “Melk Man” will be receiving his World Series ring, for the contribution he made before his 50 game suspension in 2012.

            San Francisco will then fly to Denver for a four game series with the struggling Colorado Rockies.

            "It's not going to be easy travel for these guys," manager Bruce Bochy said. 

            After today’s performance, I think it is safe to say the Giants looked very pretty in pink.