SAN FRANCISCO -- Rookie Williams Perez had more trouble figuring out his warmup jacket than the San Francisco Giants on Saturday night.

Perhaps he could be excused for that. After all, he had made two previous major league starts, whereas he had never gotten on base.

Perez collected his first major league win and hit on the same night, shutting out the hottest team in the majors for seven innings in the Atlanta Braves' 8-0 victory over the Giants.

"They need to get me a new jacket," the Spanish-speaking right-hander said with a chuckle through an interpreter.

Second baseman Jace Peterson and third baseman Juan Uribe combined for six hits and six runs as the Braves, held to two runs and 10 hits in the first two games of the series, exploded against four Giants pitchers, starting with right-hander Tim Lincecum.

The Braves got to Lincecum (5-3), who hadn't allowed a run at home since April 21, for four runs in 4 1/3 innings, ending his scoreless-innings streak at home at 23 and his winning streak at four.

"Sometimes you just have to tip your cap to the other team," Lincecum said. "They might have gotten some broken-bat hits, but they were hits. Nothing is easy."

After watching solid starting efforts by right-handers Shelby Miller and Mike Foltynewicz go to waste the two previous nights in losses, Perez was even better in the longest of his three major league starts.

He allowed four hits and four walks in his seven innings but stranded seven runners, including two apiece in the first and sixth innings.

"You don't see that often from a kid," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said of the 24-year-old's poise. "He's been impressive."

Perez (1-0) struck out three and lowered his ERA as a Braves starter to 1.00.

"I want to thank everybody because we have a great team and everybody contributed to the win," he said afterward. "From the first pitch I felt in command. I have a lot of confidence that I will pitch well. Everything right now is going my way."

Perez got his first big-league hit on a sixth-inning grounder off his glove of Giants reliever Yusmeiro Petit. It marked the first time Perez had reached base in six major league plate appearances.

When the Braves ran out a warmup jacket to their pitcher on a chilly night in San Francisco, Perez couldn't button it properly. As the partisan Giants crowd began to boo, he discarded the jacket and took his lead bare-armed.

"It was a so-so hit," he said, not wanting to elaborate on the jacket snafu.

Peterson's three hits included a double and a triple, and Uribe capped his three-hit night with a two-run homer.

Peterson's single, double and triple came in succession, leaving him a homer from a natural cycle. The game would have had to go into extra innings for him to get a shot at the homer, however.

"We threw some good at-bats out there," he said after the first three-hit game of his career. ""We know we have (big outburst) in us, and sometimes it doesn't look like it, but as long as we keep doing our jobs, we'll get it done."

For Uribe, a former Giant, the home run was the 27th of his career at AT&T Park and his first as a Brave.

Center fielder Cameron Maybin and shortstop Andrelton Simmons contributed two hits and two RBIs apiece to Atlanta's 14-hit attack.

"A lot of good things happened," Gonzalez said. "We've had three better-than-quality outings from our (starting pitchers) and finally got a win out of it."

The win was just the Braves' second in the first six outings on their 10-game western trip.

Right fielder Hunter Pence reached base three times and catcher Andrew Susac, starting in place of resting Buster Posey, walked twice for the Giants, who had won 13 of their last 15 games, including six in a row at home, during which they had outscored the opposition 24-4.
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