Hampton helps snap skid
BRAVES 11, GIANTS 5
Associated Press
Sunday, August 17, 2008

ATLANTA --- Cast in the unlikely role of last man standing among the Braves' four former 20-game winners, Mike Hampton prospered.

Hampton gave up two runs in six innings and Atlanta beat the San Francisco Giants 11-5 on Saturday night to end a five-game losing streak, including four straight at Turner Field.

Hampton gave the Atlanta rotation a lift on the day 300-game winner Tom Glavine confirmed he'll miss the rest of the season with an elbow injury. John Smoltz and Tim Hudson already have had season-ending surgeries.

Hampton (2-1) earned the second win of his comeback after missing the 2006 and 2007 seasons with elbow surgeries and having his 2008 debut pushed back almost four months by other injuries. He allowed seven hits with two walks and four strikeouts.

Jeff Francoeur, who hit eighth and began the night with a .227 batting average, had his first four-hit game of the season and drove in two runs. Greg Norton hit a two-run homer and Omar Infante also drove in two runs with two hits.

The Giants lost for the fifth time in six games. They have allowed 39 runs in the five losses.

San Francisco right hander Matt Palmer gave up seven hits and six runs in 2Q innings in his major league debut. Palmer (0-1) started for former Augusta Greenjacket Jonathan Sanchez, who was placed on the DL because of a strained left shoulder.

Palmer is the club-record 15th rookie to make his major league debut with the Giants this season.

From the Sunday, August 17, 2008 edition of the Augusta Chronicle
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