By Jeremy Kahn

AP photo: San Francisco Giant pitcher Matt Cain center is greeted at home plate by Brandon Belt (9) and Ramiro Pena left after hitting a three run homer to help his cause in the second inning against the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night at AT&T Park

SAN FRANCISCO-Matt Cain decided enough was enough, and he took this game versus the Cincinnati Reds seriously.

Cain went 5.1 innings, allowing four runs on six hits, walking just one and striking out four and the San Francisco Giants defeated the Reds 9-7 before a crowd of 41,896, the 456th consecutive regular season sellout at AT&T Park.

This was the second win for the Giants since the All-Star break, as they now 2-8 since then. The nine runs are the most that the Giants have scored since they scored 12 against the Oakland A’s at the Coliseum on June 30.

Asides from getting his second win of the season against six losses, Cain also helped out his cause with the bat, as he hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the second inning to extend the Giants lead up to 4-0.

It was the seventh career home run for Cain, and his first since July 21, 2012 when he connected for one against Cole Hamels of the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park.

Ramiro Pena drove in the first Giants run of the game, as he hit a single that scored Brandon Crawford just prior to Cain’s three-run home run. Crawford led off the inning with a single, and then went to third when Brandon Belt hit a fly ball that Adam Duvall was unable to hold for a two-base error.

The Giants added to their lead in the bottom of the third inning, as Mac Williamson led off the inning with a single, then after a Buster Posey flyout, Crawford and Belt both singled to bring up Grant Green with the bases loaded. Green hit a ground ball to Brandon Phillips at second base, he then tagged Belt for the second out and threw to Votto to complete the double play; however Bruce Bochy thought differently , as he challenged the call.

After the umpires look at it, the call was reserved and Williamson scored from third base to give the Giants a 5-0 lead.

Joey Votto broke up the shutout with his 18th home run of the season to get the Reds within four at 5-1 in the top of the fourth inning.

The Reds scored again in the top of the fifth inning, as Billy Hamilton singled to score Eugenio Suarez, who led off the inning with a single of his own.

Duvall, who was traded from the Giants to the Reds last season in exchange for Mike Leake came back to haunt his former team, as he hit a two-run home run to get the Reds within one.

The Giants extended their lead to two, as they scored one in the bottom of the fifth, when Green hit a sacrifice fly to score Posey from third base after Posey stole his sixth base of the season.

The Giants blew the game open in the bottom of the seventh inning, as they scored three runs, as Williamson and Posey singled and then Crawford tripled into the right-center field to score both of them. Conor Gillaspie hit a pinch-hit single to score Crawford.

Bruce got the Reds within four runs, as he led off the top of the eighth inning with a solo home run on the first pitch thrown by Sergio Romo. The very next batter was Duvall, and he greeted his former teammate by hitting his second home run of the game and 25th home run of the season.

Following the Duvall home run, Brandon Phillips singled;however he was retired on a nice double play that was started by Gillaspie to Green and onto Belt. Romo then got Ramon Cabrera to groundout to end the inning.

Angel Pagan was ejected in the bottom of the eighth inning by home plate umpire Joe West after he argued a called strike three. It was the fourth career ejection for Pagan, and the first during the 2016 season.

With the Giants out of position players, Belt moved to left field to replace Pagan, Posey moved from catcher to first base and Trevor Brown came onto catch Santiago Casilla, who picked his 26th save, the day after his 36th birthday.

Casilla gave up a run, a hit and a walk; however was able to get out of the jam, as he got Bruce to strikeout to end the game.

NOTES: Pagan saw his 14-game hitting streak come to an end, as he went 0-for-4 on the evening.

Giants pitchers allowed four more home runs tonight, and have given up 23 in the 10 games since the All-Star break.

With the sellout tonight, the Giants surpassed the Cleveland Indians for the second longest consecutive sellout streak. The Indians sold out 455 consecutive games between 1995-2001. The longest streak in major league history is held by the Boston Red Sox, who sold out 794 regular season consecutive games between 2003-2013.

Duvall’s previous multi-home run game came on May 30, 2016 against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field

This was the first time that Romo allowed two home runs in a game in his major league career.