By Jeremy Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO-Following his second stint on the disabled list this season, Hunter Pence did not need a rehab assignment in the minor leagues and it shows.

Pence hit a grand slam to right field off of Cole Hamels, as the San Francisco Giants defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 15-2 before a sellout crowd of 41,895, the 372nd consecutive sellout at AT&T Park.

The right fielder continues to stay hot, as the reigning World Champions scored their most runs in a game this season and had their most hits in a game at home in nearly 14 seasons.

With the 15 runs on the night the Giants topped their season high in runs, as their previous high was 11 on two different two occasions.

Joe Panik hit his seventh home run of the season in the bottom of the seventh inning, Panik joined Matt Duffy and Justin Maxwell as players who picked up four hits on the evening.

The last time the Giants had three players with four hits in the same game came in the first fans of a doubleheader against the Houston Astros at the Astrodome on May 22, 1965. The players were Jesus Alou, Tom Haller and Hal Lanier, this according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

To go back to the last time that the Giants accomplished this feat at home came against the St. Louis Cardinals at the Polo Grounds on May 9, 1951. Alvin Dark, Whitey Lockman and Ray Noble, thank you Bill Arnold of Sports Features Group.

When Maxwell drove in Brandon Belt in the bottom of the eighth inning, it was the 21st hit of the night for the Giants, which breaks the AT&T Park record for most hits in a game by a Giants team. The previous record was 20 against the Florida Marlins on August 14, 2001.

The Pence grand slam was his fifth career grand slam, and it put the finishing touches on what was an eight-run frame for the Giants.

After Brandon Crawford struck out to lead off the inning against Hamels, eight consecutive Giants reached base and that ended when Crawford grounded out for the second out of the inning.

Madison Bumgarner pitched 5.2 innings, allowing two runs on eight runs, walking two and striking out seven.

Hamels was done after just 3.1 innings, allowing nine runs on 12 hits, walking two and striking out four.

The matchup between Hamels and Bumgarner marked the 44th in big league history that both starting pitchers were named World Series MVPs. Hamels was the 2008 World Series MVP, when the Phillies defeated the Tampa Bay Rays, and Bumgarner was the World Series MVP in 2014.