By Jeremy Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO-In his last two starts, Ryan Vogelsong made everyone remember why Bruce Bochy picked him to be an All-Star during the 2011 season.

Vogelsong struck out a career-high tying eight in a loss to the Atlanta Braves, and in his next start, he struck out six in seven innings of work, not allowing a run on five hits, walking just one and the San Francisco Giants defeated the Miami Marlins 4-1 before a crowd of 41,551, the 268th consecutive sellout at AT&T Park.

In hs first at-bat against Turner in the bottom of the second inning ,Vogelsong picked up his third hit of the season and then grounded out to shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria in the bottom of the fourth inning.

The Giants got the all the runs they would need in the bottom of the first inning, as Gregor Blanco led off the inning by reaching first base after being hit by a Jacob Turner pitch.

Blanco then stole second base,went to third on a Hunter Pence groundout and then scored the only run that the Giants and Vogelsong would need on a Buster Posey sacrifice fly.

Pablo Sandoval then began a trend of four successive singles, as Michael Morse, Tyler Colvin and Brandon Hicks followed suit behind Sandoval.

It was Colvin’s base hit that scored Sandoval, and then Hicks’ single scored Morse following the Colvin single off of Tuner.

Sandoval hit his just third home run of the season, a solo shot that led off the bottom of the fifth innig, it was the first home run for Sandoval since April 13 against Tyler Chatwood of the Colorado Rockies, a span of 108 at-bats.

Christian Yelich got on the board in the top of the eighth inning, as he grounded out to Brandon Crawford at shortstop to score Hechavarria against Jeremy Affeldt.

Santiago Casilla was able to get out the Giants of a potential tie game, as he struck out Garrett Jones for the second out and then got pinch hitter Giancarlo Stanton to flyout to Pence in right field to end the inning.