By Jeremy Harness

The Giants continued to play great baseball on the road, as they gained the upper hand on the Cincinnati Reds, 6-1, at the Great American Ball Park Thursday afternoon.

They leave town having won two of the three-game series and are arguably the best team in baseball at this moment. It was also the first time in five seasons that the Giants have won a series in Cincinnati, with the exception of the 2012 Division Series during which the Giants roared back from a 2-0 deficit to win the final three games there to move to the next round.

In the process, the Giants surpassed the A’s for the top spot in Yahoo! Sports’s power rankings, a place that they haven’t been in quite some time.

Madison Bumgarner paced the Giants on Thursday, retiring the last 16 batters he faced en route to going eight dominant innings while giving up only one run on three hits, walking none and striking out five.

Well, it was another game, and another tape measure shot by Michael Morse, who doesn’t look like he’s coming down to earth any time soon. In the second, righty Mike Leake left a fastball on the inside part of the plate, and the big man smashed it 440 feet into the upper deck in left field to tie the game at 1-1.

Brandon Crawford gave the Giants the lead for good with a three-run homer off Leake. Buster Posey added just a little insurance in the seventh with his RBI single into shallow left to score Angel Pagan.

The Giants have now won 11 of their past 14 games and moved to a season-high 18 games over .500, which also gives them the best record in the majors at 39-21.

In the process, they moved to 8 ½ games ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League West, and they get to celebrate by coming home for a three-game series that starts Friday against the New York Mets, a team that is currently four games under .500 and have lost their last three games.