Beard.We just didnt have enough consecutive possessions on both sides of the ball to create enough of a run, Moore said.Minnesota is seeking its fourth title in six years. The Lynx evened the series with a 19-point victory in Game 2 on their home court.ALL-WNBALeague MVP Ogwumike was the only unanimou

SAN FRANCISCO -- Aaron Blair has a pretty good sense of what he needs to do to be successful in the majors. Fausse Balenciaga Triple s .Im a pitcher that needs to be down in the zone and create movement, he said. When Im up its just flat, it goes a long way.The 24-year-old pitcher had trouble keeping the ball down in his most recent outing, and it didnt work out well for him or the Braves.Joe Panik homered twice and matched his career high of four RBI to back Madison Bumgarner, and the San Francisco Giants beat Atlanta 13-4 on Sunday to win a series for only the second time since the All-Star break.Blair, called up from the minors to make his first big league start in more than two months, allowed five runs over four innings. He gave up three homers.The Giants scored eight runs off the Braves bullpen in the seventh inning, when they tripled three times and sent 14 batters to the plate.Blair (0-6) was brought up Sunday from Triple-A Gwinnett and is expected to stay in the rotation, manager Brian Snitker said, noting the organization is committed to the young pitchers development.Blair has allowed 11 home runs in 12 starts this season, six of which have been to Giants hitters. Panik has homered three times off Blair.Youve got to stay with him, keep working with him, Snitker said. You saw glimpses of the stuff, but its got to be consistent.Blair said hes not taking the opportunity to pitch in the majors lightly.I had my name on the map early, he said. I kind of faltered middle months; Im trying to get my name back on the map again.Freddie Freeman and Gordon Beckham homered for Atlanta. Ender Inciarte doubled, tripled and scored twice, but the last-place Braves have lost 13 of 18.Denard Span and Eduardo Nunez also homered, Brandon Crawford had three hits and Jarrett Parker drove in three runs for San Francisco.The Giants took two of three from the Braves and remained two games behind the first-place Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West.Bumgarner (13-8) allowed three runs over seven uneven innings. He struck out five and walked two.San Franciscos four-time All-Star pitched in and out of trouble most of the day but punctuated his afternoon with an emphatic fist pump after striking out pinch-hitter Jace Peterson to end the seventh.Panik hit a solo homer in the second and added a two-run shot in the fourth. The second baseman also reached on an infield single in the sixth and had a sacrifice fly in the seventh.It was the first multihomer game of his career.The Giants broke open a 5-3 game in the seventh.Being in the game that long with Bumgarner, we played good baseball for six innings, it just kind of unfolded there in the seventh, Freeman said.The slugger was asked if there was anything his young teammates could take from the game.Just forget about this one and just move on, he said. Take the day and a half that were going to get for today and tomorrow and come back Tuesday ready to play the Padres.HOT HITTERInciarte extended his hitting streak to 10 games. Hes batting .436 (17 for 39) with 10 runs during that stretch.EXTRA, EXTRAFreeman hit his 27th home run off Bumgarner in the sixth for his 67th extra-base hit of the season. Freeman had the second-most extra-base hits in the league going into Sunday.TRAINERS ROOMBraves: RHP John Gant was optioned to Triple-A Gwinnett to make room for Blair. ... Freeman was in the lineup for a third straight day with a sore back after tumbling over the railing and crashing into a seat Thursday in Arizona. I feel good now, he said. The soreness has gone down greatly over the last couple of days.UP NEXTBraves: RHP Julio Teheran (3-9) pitches against San Diego on Tuesday in the opener of a brief, three-game homestand. Teheran is winless since June 19. Air Max 270 Promo . On June 12, just as the sun sets on the magnificent historical city of Sao Paulo the inventors, innovators and purveyors of “joga bonitowill” open their campaign. The opponent, Croatia and all its football might and will. As opposites do attract we are set for a corker of an opener. Air Jordan 1 Pas Cher a Vendre . 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LOS ANGELES -- Candace Parker watched video of herself in every game the Sparks played against Minnesota this season.She didnt like what she saw.Parker brought a different mentality into Game 3 of the WNBA Finals, leading an aggressive charge from the opening tip in the Sparks 92-75 victory Friday night that put the franchise on the brink of its first championship since 2002.That was a product of me being non-existent in every game we played Minnesota this year, Parker said.She scored 24 points, Nneka Ogwumike added 21 and the Sparks took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five series.Weve worked too hard to get to this point and just be there, Parker said. We had a game plan of just going to the basket and being aggressive.The Sparks can close out the Lynx with a victory in Game 4 on Sunday.Los Angeles built a 22-point advantage in the opening quarter when it shot 60 percent in the game played at Galen Center on the Southern California campus, down the street from their home court at Staples Center.Its all on the want to of Nneka Ogwumike and Candace Parker to start the game. Their want-to was on `10, Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve said. Im not sure what we were expecting when we started the game but it wasnt that.Parker and Ogwumike were especially devastating in a 2 1/2-minute sequence in the first. They combined to score 12 straight points with Ogwumike hitting consecutive 3-pointers and Los Angeles taking a 21-6 lead.I didnt see it coming, a clearly peeved Reeve said. They won the persistency battle. We didnt rise to the occasion. We were soft, we were feeble.Rebekkah Brunson and Sylvia Fowles led Minnesota with 14 points each. Lindsay Whalen added 11, and Maya Moore had nine points and seven rebounds. The Lynx had 13 turnovers.Theyre extremely good converting those turnovers into points, Moore said. If you give that much of a lead to a great team, its going to be really hard to come back.The Lynx cut the deficit to 48-40 at halftime, outscoring the Sparks 10-0 to end the second.Youre not going to sustainn that, Sparks coach Brian Agler said about his teams initial intensity, but I also think a lot of that had to do with Minnesota. Vapormax Pas Cher Chine. . They experimented there for a while and finally got a group that was working.It didnt last long.With their former and current league MVPs leading the way, the Sparks dominated inside. Parker and Ogwumike helped Los Angeles to a 52-32 advantage in the paint.Parker and Ogwumike had nine rebounds each, helping the Sparks to a 29-24 edge on the boards.Essence Carson added 16 points, and Alana Beard finished with 15 for Los Angeles.The Lynx made a run in the fourth quarter, outscoring the Sparks 11-2 to close to 81-71. Los Angeles answered with eight straight points to go up 89-71. Parker hit a layup and fed Ogwumike on a fast-break sandwiched around baskets by Beard.We just didnt have enough consecutive possessions on both sides of the ball to create enough of a run, Moore said.Minnesota is seeking its fourth title in six years. The Lynx evened the series with a 19-point victory in Game 2 on their home court.ALL-WNBALeague MVP Ogwumike was the only unanimous pick for the all-WNBA first team, receiving 39 first-place votes and 195 points from the media panel.New York center Tina Charles was second with 38 first-team votes and 193 points. Guards Maya Moore of Minnesota and Sue Bird of Seattle, and forward Elena Delle Donne completed the first team.Forwards Angel McCoughtry of Atlanta and Breanna Stewart of Seattle were selected to the second team along with guards Diana Taurasi of Phoenix and Jewell Loyd of Seattle, and center Fowles.PURPLE ONELynx F Natasha Howard scored six points, but made a bigger statement with footwear. She sported the purple symbol associated with the late singer Prince on her white shoes.McCARVILLE INJURYLynx F-C Janel McCarville hurt her back and didnt return.UP NEXTGame 4 is Sunday night at Staples Center. ' ' '