Giants 15, Phillies 2
SAN FRANCISCO -- Right fielder Hunter Pence capped an eight-run explosion against Philadelphia Phillies ace Cole Hamels in the fourth inning with a grand slam, powering the San Francisco Giants to a 15-2 win Friday night in the opener of a three-game series.
Second baseman Joe Panik, third baseman Matt Duffy and left fielder Justin Maxwell banged out four hits apiece, and center fielder Angel Pagan chipped in with three as the Giants set a team record for most hits in game at AT&T Park with 22 against five Phillies pitchers.
The Giants had totaled just 18 hits in losing two of three to the New York Mets earlier in the week.
All-Star left-hander Madison Bumgarner was the beneficiary of the offensive onslaught, and also contributed to it with two singles and an RBI.
Bumgarner (9-5) pitched only 5 2/3 innings, but still managed seven strikeouts. He allowed two runs on eight hits, and also walked two.
The two runs were two more than the Phillies had totaled against Los Angeles Dodgers standouts Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke in their previous two games. They ended a 23-inning scoreless streak on catcher Carlos Ruiz's solo homer, his second, in the top of the fourth, which momentarily created a 1-1 tie.
Ruiz finished with three of the Phillies' 10 hits.
The Giants, who had lost eight of their previous nine games, smacked eight extra-base hits among their 22 hits. Pence and Panik crushed homers, Maxwell had two doubles and a triple, and first baseman Brandon Belt collected a pair of doubles.
Belt, Bumgarner, Pagan, Panik, Duffy and catcher Buster Posey all had hits in the eight-run fourth before Pence connected off Hamels (5-7) for his fifth career grand slam.
Panik's homer, his seventh, was a two-run shot in the seventh.
The loss was the Phillies' third in a row and dropped them to 2-6 on their current 10-game trip.
Center fielder Ben Revere and right fielder Domonic Brown had two hits apiece in the loss.
Hamels was pulled one out into the Giants' huge fourth inning, having given up season highs in hits (12) and runs (nine) in his shortest outing of the year (3 1/3 innings).
He had allowed just seven runs in his previous four starts.
The Giants, meanwhile, had scored just 10 runs in their previous 56 innings, including one in the first inning on Friday before exploding against Hamels in the fourth.
Before Pence's grand slam, the key at-bat of the inning could have been Bumgarner's.
Batting with one out and runners on first and second in a 1-0 game, Bumgarner was looking to hand the Phillies a second out with a sacrifice bunt until Hamels had trouble finding the strike zone. The 2014 Silver Slugger Award winner among National League pitchers then pulled back and singled to left field, loading the bases with one out.
Pagan, Panik, Duffy and Posey followed with singles to score the first four runs in the inning before Pence' shot into the right field pavilion.
NOTES: The game's starting pitchers -- Phillies LHP Cole Hamels and Giants LHP Madison Bumgarner -- are former World Series Most Valuable Players. Hamels won in 2008 and Bumgarner did so last season. ... The pitching matchup of Series MVPs is the 44th in major-league history and first since Hamels faced Washington Nationals RHP Livan Hernandez on Aug. 12, 2011. ... The Phillies will promote RHP David Buchanan from Triple-A Lehigh Valley on Saturday and start him in the middle game of the three-game series. Buchanan lost five consecutive starts with an 8.76 ERA before getting demoted in May. ... Three Giants pitchers currently on the disabled list -- RHP Tim Hudson (strained right shoulder), RHP Tim Lincecum (contusion on right forearm) and LHP Jeremy Affeldt (strained left shoulder) -- threw bullpen sessions before the game. Giants manager Bruce Bochy indicated that Affeldt probably will be sent to the minors for a rehab appearance or two next week.