By Jeremy Kahn
photo from philly.com: Philadelphia Phillies hitter Cameron Rupp takes a cut for a double as San Francisco Giants catcher Trevor Brown can only follow the flight of the ball Saturday night at AT&T Park
SAN FRANCISCO-Cameron Rupp changed the outcome of what looked like a sure Madison Bumgarner win with one swing of the bat.
Rupp took a Bumgarner pitch and planted it over the centerfield wall in the top of the seventh inning, as the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the San Francisco Giants 3-2, before a crowd of 41,928, the 445th consecutive regular season sellout at AT&T Park.
The win by the Phillies put an end to the Giants four-game winning streak, and made a winner out of Jeremy Hellickson.
In six innings of work, Hellickson allowed two runs (one earned), walked one and struck out two, as he raised his record to 5-6 on the season.
Bumgarner went 6.1 innings, allowing three runs on seven hits, walking just one and striking out seven
By allowing three earned runs, Bumgarner saw his streak of allowing two or more earned runs fall. Bumgarner was one game shy of tying Jesse Barnes, who completed 13 straight such starts from July 17, 1920 until September 16, 1920.
Bumgarner walked in the bottom of the second inning, and picked up his seventh hit of the season in the bottom of the fourth inning.
Buster Posey scored the first Giants run of the game in the bottom of the second inning, as he singled to leadoff the inning, went to third on a Angel Pagan double and scored when former Giants prospect Tommy Joseph was unable to make the play on a Gregor Blanco ground ball for an error.
Posey drove in the Giants second run of the game in the bottom of the third inning, as he hit sacrifice fly that scored Joe Panik from third base. Panik led off the inning with a single, and went to third on a Brandon Belt single.
That would be the score until the Phillies rallied against Bumgarner in the top of the seventh inning.
Joseph doubled to lead off the inning, and then scored the Phillies first run of the game when Andres Blanco singled him in and then Rupp launched a Bumgarner offering over the centerfield wall for his seventh home run of the season.
The loss by the Giants denied getting Bruce Bochy that elusive 800th win since becoming the Giants manager in 2007.
Bochy would have joined John McGraw, Dusty Baker and Bill Terry as the only Giants managers who have 800 games or more. McGraw leads with 2,583 from 1902-1932, Baker won 840 from 1993-2002 and Terry won 823 from 1932-1941.
It looked like the Giants were going to tie up the game in the bottom of the eighth inning, but Brandon Crawford’s line drive was caught by Tyler Goeddel in left field, who in turn threw to Blanco to complete the double play to get Panik, who was running on the pitch.
Panik led off the inning with a single, went to second on a David Hernandez wild pitch and then Hernandez walked Posey just before Crawford lined into the double play that ended the threat and the inning all in one swing..

