CINCINNATI (AP) -- Brandon Belt hit a three-run homer, and Buster Posey added a two-run shot off Jason Marquis on Friday night, leading the San Francisco Giants to a 10-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds in a game played uninterrupted while an outfield smokestack burned for an inning.One of the two riverboat smokestacks that shoot off celebratory flames and fireworks caught fire in the top of the sixth because of a malfunctioning propane valve. Flames shot from the top of the smokestack for an inning, spewing dark smoke, until firefighters extended a ladder from outside the ballpark and sprayed it.Fans in two outfield sections by the smokestacks were evacuated while the fire was extinguished. 
San Francisco's struggling offense piled up a season high in runs. Belt and Posey homered off Marquis (3-3), who lasted a season-low three innings while allowing a season-high six runs. Belt also had an RBI double among his three hits and scored three times.Left-hander Madison Bumgarner (4-2) gave up eight hits in seven innings, including solo homers by Zack Cozart and Billy Hamilton. After getting off to a slow start this season, the World Series MVP has gone 3-1 with a 2.14 ERA in his last five starts.The teams have split the first two games in their series. San Francisco won at Great American for only the fourth time in its last 16 regular-season games.One of the NL's worst offenses hopes to get a boost when outfielder Hunter Pence rejoins the Giants on Saturday. Pence's left forearm was broken by a pitch from the Cubs' Corey Black on March 5. He went 5 for 17 with two homers in five games on a rehab assignment with Triple-A Sacramento.The Giants' Joe Panik extended his hitting streak to a career-high 11 games with a single in the first inning. Belt's first homer of the season made it 3-0.Posey connected in the third, the ninth homer allowed by Marquis, the most on the Reds' staff.
San Francisco's struggling offense piled up a season high in runs. Belt and Posey homered off Marquis (3-3), who lasted a season-low three innings while allowing a season-high six runs. Belt also had an RBI double among his three hits and scored three times.Left-hander Madison Bumgarner (4-2) gave up eight hits in seven innings, including solo homers by Zack Cozart and Billy Hamilton. After getting off to a slow start this season, the World Series MVP has gone 3-1 with a 2.14 ERA in his last five starts.The teams have split the first two games in their series. San Francisco won at Great American for only the fourth time in its last 16 regular-season games.One of the NL's worst offenses hopes to get a boost when outfielder Hunter Pence rejoins the Giants on Saturday. Pence's left forearm was broken by a pitch from the Cubs' Corey Black on March 5. He went 5 for 17 with two homers in five games on a rehab assignment with Triple-A Sacramento.The Giants' Joe Panik extended his hitting streak to a career-high 11 games with a single in the first inning. Belt's first homer of the season made it 3-0.Posey connected in the third, the ninth homer allowed by Marquis, the most on the Reds' staff.
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