Giants 4, Dodgers 0
SAN FRANCISCO -- Madison Bumgarner and four relievers scattered nine hits as the San Francisco Giants completed a sweep of the Dodgers with a 4-0 win and posted their second three-game shutout at home against Los Angeles since 2012.
Bumgarner went the first 6 1/3 innings, allowing seven hits while striking out six and walking two. George Kontos, Javier Lopez, Sergio Romo and Santiago Casilla followed to close out the Dodgers, who also got swept at AT&T Park in April.
Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw pitched 7 1/3 innings, allowing all four runs on seven hits while striking out seven and walking two.
San Francisco (23-18) pulled to within 1 1/2 games of first-place Los Angeles (24-16), with their ninth win in 12 games.
The Giants scored in the third and fourth innings.
Bumgarner hit the first pitch from Kershaw 10 rows deep into the left-field bleachers -- estimated at 415 feet -- for his first home run of the season and seventh of his career. Bumgarner's last homer came against Zack Greinke in Los Angeles on Sept. 23.
Catcher Buster Posey is the only other current Giant to have hit at least one home run off Kershaw, who retired seven straight after allowing a single to San Francisco's Nori Aoki to lead off the first.
Center fielder Angel Pagan started the fourth with a double down the left-field line. Hunter Pence followed with a one-out, hard single to right that represented the right fielder's first hit at home since Game 5 of the 2014 World Series.
Pagan dived headfirst across the plate, narrowly avoiding a sweep tag by Dodgers catcher A.J. Ellis after a strong throw to the plate by right fielder Scott Van Slyke. The safe call was upheld during video review.
Bumgarner stranded base runners in all of his six innings to keep the Dodgers off the scoreboard.
Bumgarner induced second baseman Howie Kendrick to bounce out to short with the infield drawn in and a runner at third for the second out of the third. First baseman Adrian Gonzalez flied out to the warning track in left to end that threat.
In the fifth, Kendrick and Gonzalez reached with two-out singles, but Bumgarner struck out third baseman Justin Turner on a full-count pitch.
Dodgers left fielder Alex Guerrero singled with one out an inning later but was thrown out at third trying to advance two bases on Ellis' single to left one batter later.
Kershaw struck out to end the inning.
Bumgarner was relieved after his 107th pitch, which retired center fielder Joc Pederson on a foul pop for the first out of the seventh inning.
The Giants scored twice in the eighth inning. Singles by Pence and shortstop Brandon Crawford chased home Pagan and Posey. Pagan and Posey each had singled with one out.
NOTES: Dodgers LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu (left shoulder inflammation) underwent labrum surgery on Thursday and won't pitch this season but is expected to be available for spring training. ... SS Joaquin Arias started and batted sixth in place of Brandon Crawford, who is a recent 1-for-18 against Dodgers LHP Clayton Kershaw. Arias brought a lifetime .324 average against Kershaw (12-for-37) into the game. ... Dodgers SS Jimmy Rollins sat in the series finale, with Kike Hernandez starting at shortstop for the fourth time this season and batting second. A.J. Ellis started at catcher, his 11th start in 40 games this year, and sixth time catching Kershaw in nine starts. ... Giants RHP Jake Peavy, on the disabled list with a strained back, is scheduled to throw as many as 50 pitches with Class A San Jose on Friday. ... The Dodgers play their next six at home, starting Friday with the first of three against San Diego. Atlanta is in next for three. ... San Francisco heads to Colorado to open a four-game trip on Friday, followed by three in Milwaukee.