CINCINNATI -- Great American Ball Park has not been so great for the Giants -- until this week.Madison Bumgarner picked up where he left off after a memorable May and Michael Morse and Brandon Crawford hit home runs Thursday afternoon as San Francisco wrapped up its road trip with a 6-1 win and a rare series victory in Cincinnati.The Giants had not won a regular-season series on the Reds' home field since August 2009, losing 10 of their last 11 there before this series began. 
The teams do not play again in Great American Ball Park in the regular season.San Francisco takes baseball's best record and the biggest advantage of any division leader into a 10-game homestand that begins Friday. The Giants have not lost a series since May 5-7 in Pittsburgh.Bumgarner (8-3) has won a career-high six consecutive decisions and has a 1.91 ERA over the last seven starts. He was named May's National League Pitcher of the Month. The 24-year-old left-hander gave up hits to two of the first three batters he faced, including Todd Frazier's solo home run, then retired 23 of the next 24.Right fielder Hunter Pence sprinted into the gap to rob the game's first hitter, Billy Hamilton, of what would likely have been a double. Pence was helpless to assist Bumgarner on the next pitch, however, as Frazier belted it into the right-field seats to open the scoring.Frazier's 12th homer of the season was the first Bumgarner had given up to any current Reds hitter. Frazier added a third-inning single, but that was about it for the Cincinnati batting order.Crawford was stuck in a 4-for-32 skid (.125) when he came to bat against Mike Leake (3-5) in the fourth inning. He took a mighty cut at Leake's first pitch, driving the ball over the fence and six rows into the right-center stands. Crawford's seventh homer of the season extended a 2-1 Giants lead to 5-1.Crawford then demonstrated highlights on the defensive side, going deep in the hole to rob Cincinnati's Devin Mesoraco and Chris Heisey of potential hits during the next half-inning.Morse had given the visitors a 2-1 lead in the second inning with a two-run homer into the upper deck in left field, his 13th.Pablo Sandoval, who had a 12-game hit streak snapped Tuesday, was 3-for-5 and scored two runs.Andy Call / Special to MLB.com
The teams do not play again in Great American Ball Park in the regular season.San Francisco takes baseball's best record and the biggest advantage of any division leader into a 10-game homestand that begins Friday. The Giants have not lost a series since May 5-7 in Pittsburgh.Bumgarner (8-3) has won a career-high six consecutive decisions and has a 1.91 ERA over the last seven starts. He was named May's National League Pitcher of the Month. The 24-year-old left-hander gave up hits to two of the first three batters he faced, including Todd Frazier's solo home run, then retired 23 of the next 24.Right fielder Hunter Pence sprinted into the gap to rob the game's first hitter, Billy Hamilton, of what would likely have been a double. Pence was helpless to assist Bumgarner on the next pitch, however, as Frazier belted it into the right-field seats to open the scoring.Frazier's 12th homer of the season was the first Bumgarner had given up to any current Reds hitter. Frazier added a third-inning single, but that was about it for the Cincinnati batting order.Crawford was stuck in a 4-for-32 skid (.125) when he came to bat against Mike Leake (3-5) in the fourth inning. He took a mighty cut at Leake's first pitch, driving the ball over the fence and six rows into the right-center stands. Crawford's seventh homer of the season extended a 2-1 Giants lead to 5-1.Crawford then demonstrated highlights on the defensive side, going deep in the hole to rob Cincinnati's Devin Mesoraco and Chris Heisey of potential hits during the next half-inning.Morse had given the visitors a 2-1 lead in the second inning with a two-run homer into the upper deck in left field, his 13th.Pablo Sandoval, who had a 12-game hit streak snapped Tuesday, was 3-for-5 and scored two runs.Andy Call / Special to MLB.com
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