Giants Wrap-Up: Giants top Braves 6-3, Johnson gets 299th win

Randy Johnson had another solid outing, and so did the Giants offense. Aaron Rowand led the Giants' offense with two hits including an RBI double in the 6th. The Giants new lead off man also stole home in the 4th inning.

Randy Johnson picked up his 299th win and he deserved it. The Unit threw six innings of three hit ball and only gave up one run. He retired the Braves first nine hitters and 15 of the first 16 that he faced. Braves' starter Kenshin Kawakami did not fair nearly as well as Johnson did. Kawakami gave up nine hits and four runs in almost six innings of work.

Juan Uribe knocked in the Giants first run in the second inning with a single to left field that brought home Fred Lewis who had walked to lead off the inning. The Giants also struck again in the fourth with Rowand stealing home on a double steal that sent Edgar Renteria to second base.

In the sixth inning, the Braves finally got on the board. However, despite letting the Braves scratch for a run in the top of the sixth with Casey Kotchman's RBI single, the Giants came right back in the bottom of the inning with key RBIs from Rowand and Nate Schierholtz. 

The seventh inning was an adventure for both squads. In the top of the seventh Garrett Anderson hammered a pitch from Giants reliever Jeremy Affeldt up the middle two bring home two runs for the Braves. The Giants lead had been cut to a slim margin of 4-3.

In the bottom of the seventh the Giants broke it open for good. Travis Ishikawa and Juan Uribe led off the inning with back to back singles. The next batter Emmanuel Burriss brought home Ishikawa with a single to center field. Then Andres Torres smashed a single to right to bring home Uribe and the Giants had a 6-3 lead that they would not surrender for the rest of the night.

San Francisco's hard throwing young reliever Merkin Valdez threw a perfect eighth and Giants' closer Brian Wilson wrapped it up in the ninth for his 10th save of the season.

Today is an off day for the Giants and they begin a three game series against Albert Pujols and the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday.