Baseball: San Francisco 5 Atlanta 3

Angel Pagan had four hits, scored twice and drove in a run Friday to help the San Francisco Giants beat Atlanta 5-3 for their fifth straight victory. Pagan had a single, a double and a triple. Marco Scutaro, Pablo Sandoval and Buster Posey each drove in a run for the Giants, who maintained a 3 1/2 game lead over the second-place Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West. Ryan Vogelsong (11-7) went 6 1/3 innings, allowing three runs on four hits with five strikeouts and one walk to get the win after two straight losses. Javier Lopez was perfect in the ninth in a four-out save, his fourth save of the season. Ben Sheets (4-4) took the loss, allowing four runs on nine hits and three walks in 4 1/3 innings. The Braves scored all their runs on solo homers, two by Freddie Freeman -- his 16th and 17th -- and one by Jason Heyward, his 22nd. Atlanta has lost six of its last seven.