By Jeremy Harness

The Giants rebounded very nicely from two ugly losses in Colorado with a dominant effort in Milwaukee for three straight games, finishing off a sweep of the Brewers with a 3-1 win at Miller Park Wednesday afternoon.

Ryan Vogelsong has had a real resurgence this month, and it continued on Wednesday with a superior effort. He went six strong innings and allowed only one run on six hits en route to winning his third straight start and boosting his record to 4-2 for the year.

After surrendering an RBI single in the fourth, Vogelsong kept grinding away and got the led he was looking for when Joe Panik hit a two-run homer off Milwaukee starter Mike Fiers.

In the top of the ninth, Gregor Blanco gave closer Santiago Casilla just enough cushion when his sac fly brought in Angel Pagan to give the Giants a 3-1 lead. Casilla responded with a one-two-three ninth to secure the Giants’ fifth win on this seven-game road trip.

The Giants will now head back home in time for a four-game series that starts Thursday night against the Atlanta Braves, a team that is basically treading water in the National League Central, a place that they are rather unfamiliar with, and sit with a 22-23 record at press time.

As for the Giants, they sit in second place in the National League West, but due to this surge, which includes another recent three-game sweep of the division-leading Dodgers, they are now only 1 ½ games out of the top spot.

They have a real chance to take over first place in the division, since the Dodgers will now head to St. Louis to face a Cardinals team that owns the best record in the majors at 31-16, and to make things worse for the Dodgers, it is a place where they have historically had trouble winning, particularly in the postseason.