After controlling the game for seven innings, a disastrous eighth inning doomed the Braves in a 6-3 loss to the Giants on Tuesday night at SunTrust Park.
Austin Slater made the Braves pay for a critical mistake with a wall-scraping home run over the right field fence to turn a 2-0 game into a 3-2 Giant lead with one crack of the bat in the decisive top of the eighth.
Hunter Pence led off the eighth with an infield single and Brandon Belt hit a ground ball to second that should have resulted in a double play, but shortstop Dansby Swanson slung the ball out of his glove attempting to make the turn.