By Jeremy Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO-Madison Bumgarner can do it all, he sure can pitch the ball; however the 25-year old can also hit the ball.

Bumgarner went 7.2 innings, allowing two runs on five hits, walking two and striking out eight and the San Francisco Giants defeated the Colorado Rockies 6-3 before a sellout crowd of 41,795, the 368th consecutive sellout at AT&T Park. He also hit his second home run of the season off of Christian Bergman in the bottom of the seventh inning.

It was the second home run of the season for Bumgarner, which leads all pitchers and it was eighth home run of his career.

When Bumgarner struck out Brandon Barnes in the top of the second inning, it was the 1,000th strikeout of Bumgarner’s career. He is the third youngest Giants pitcher to reach 1,000 strikeouts. Only Amos Rusie in 1893 at the age of 21 and Christy Mathewson at 25 years 12 days were younger.

Buster Posey drove in three runs for the Giants, which included his 26th run batted in for the month, the most of any month in his career.

Nolan Arenado continues to hit the ball well, as he hit two home runs for the second time in the series and in his last six games, he has three multi home run games. Arenado also extended his hitting streak up to 16 games, the longest current streak in the National League.

Matt Duffy went 3-for-4 at the plate, coming up a single short of the cycle, as he hit his 10th hone run of the season in the bottom of the sixth inning.

Just one inning later Brandon Crawford matched Duffy by hitting his 10th home run of the season that also matched Crawford’s career high.

Santiago Casilla pitched 0.2 innings to notch his 21st save of the season.