By Jeremy Kahn

foxsports.com photo: San Francisco Giant pitcher Madison Bumgarner almost pitched a no hitter at AT&T Park on Sunday

SAN FRANCISCO-Madison Bumgarner is definitely going to be in the running for the Cy Young Award when the offseason award season comes around, and this performance against the Arizona Diamondbacks proved why.

Bumgarner tossed his third complete game of the season, as he allowed only a base hit to Jake Lamb in the top of the eighth inning, a walk to Rickie Weeks, Jr., Lamb also reached on a fielding error by Gregor Blanco in the top of the fifth inning and Bumgarner struck out 14, as the San Francisco Giants completed the three-game sweep of the Diamondbacks with a 4-0 victory before a crowd of 42,075, the 454th consecutive regular season sellout at AT&T Park.

This marked the first sweep by the Giants over the Diamondbacks at AT&T Park since September 9-11, 2014.

To go along with Bumgarner’s third complete game of the season, this was the Giants major-league leading eighth complete game. During the entire 2015 season, the Giants completed only seven games.

Bumgarner won his 10th game of the season, joining fellow All-Star pitcher Johnny Cueto with double figure wins. The duo are the pair of Giants teammates to accomplish this feat since Matt Cain and Tim Lincecum each won 10 games prior to the All-Star break in 2009.

The 14 strikeouts not only tied Bumgarner’s career-high, but it was the 29th time in his career that he topped the double figure plateau in strikeouts and that is good enough for second place in New York/San Francisco Giants franchise history. Only Lincecum with 36 has more than Bumgarner.

The Giants raise their record to 57-33 on the season, the best record in the major leagues and they are a season-high 24 games over .500. Since moving to San Francisco in 1958, this is only the second time that the Giants are going into the All-Star break with the best record in the major leagues. The Giants last entered the All-Star break with the best record in baseball was in 1993, when they went 59-30.

Also the 57 wins by the team are the second most in team history behind the 1993 team that won 59 before the break.

With the victory, Bumgarner raises his record to 10-4 on the season, and Bumgarner joins Max Scherzer of the Washington Nationals as the only pitchers to have double-digit victories at the All-Star break in the four of the last five seasons.

This was the fourth one-hitter of Bumgarner’s career, and it was the second longest no-hitter of his career. Bumgarner’s longest no-hit bid was broken up with two outs in the top of the eighth inning against the San Diego Padres on September 12, 2015.

Bumgarner struck out 14 for the third time in his career, with both previous times coming during the 2015 season. The first time was against the San Diego Padres on June 23 and then on August 16 versus the Washington Nationals.

Lamb broke up the perfect game with two outs in the top of the fifth inning, as Blanco was unable to hold on the ball that glanced off his glove.

The left-handed Lamb, who was facing Bumgarner for the first time in his short major league career broke up the no-hitter in with one out in the top of the eighth inning.

Weeks reached on Bumgarner’s only walk of the game, as he led off the top of the ninth inning, but was retired as part of the game-ending double play, when Jean Segura grounded to Ramiro Pena, who threw to Brandon Crawford and then onto Brandon Belt to end the game.

It was a huge night for Crawford, as he drove in three of the four Giants runs on the evening. The 61 runs batted in by Crawford are the most by a Giants player before the All-Star break since Pedro Feliz drove in 62 runs in 2006.

The Giants got to Diamondbacks starter Archie Bradley in the first inning, as Denard Span singled, went to second on a Angel Pagan double and then scored on a Buster Posey single. Pagan scored the second run of the inning, when Crawford hit a sacrifice fly to Brandon Drury in left field.

Bradley held the Giants in check for the remainder of the game, as he went six innings, allowing just two runs on seven hits, walking two and striking out six.

Crawford drove in the Giants final two runs of the night in the bottom of the seventh inning, as he doubled off of Daniel Hudson to score Belt and Posey.