By Jeremy Harness

After falling behind early, the Giants roared back with an offensive explosion to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat Wednesday night, as they downed the Cincinnati Reds, 3-2, at the Great American Ball Park.

Starter Ryan Vogelsong was cruising along in the third inning, until third baseman Todd Frazier hammered a mistake fastball and sent it just inside the foul pole into the left-field bleachers to give the Reds a 1-0 lead.

The Reds increased their lead immediately following the homer with back-to-back doubles, the scoring hit coming from Jay Bruce, who knocked in Brandon Phillips. That’s when pitching coach Dave Righetti paid Vogelsong a visit to give a pep talk.

The talk must have worked, since the right-hander did not give up a single run after that. He ended up going 6 1/3 innings and gave up only those two runs while striking out nine batters and walked only one.

In the process, he did what Giants starters usually do. He kept his team in the game with a realistic chance to win. In the sixth inning, his bats came through for him and allowed him to pick up the win.

Once again, the Giants’ rally came with two outs, which is really starting to become their calling card this year. Buster Posey and Pablo Sandoval were quickly retired to begin the inning, but Michael Morse, who is having a monster season thus far, launched a solo homer into the left-field seats.

Brandon Hicks followed that with a single, and left fielder Juan Perez quickly capitalized on the opportunity and deposited another deposit into those bleachers in left to give the Giants a 3-2 lead.

The Giants are also building a reputation of having a shutdown bullpen, and that was again on display on Wednesday. After Vogelsong departed in the seventh, Juan Gutierrez, Javier Lopez, Jean Machi and closer Sergio Romo combined to give up a single baserunner, which was a result of a fielding error in the bottom of the eighth.

That baserunner was wiped out two batters later when Machi got Devin Mesoraco to ground into an inning-ending double play.

The two teams will play the rubber game Thursday afternoon.