Gerrit Cole notched yet another tremendous start as the Bucs won the first in a three-game series in San Francisco Monday night, 4-3.
The Giants were the first to score. Nori Aoki led off the bottom of the first with a single and stole second, and then Hunter Pence reached with one-out on a throwing error by Jung-Ho Kang. Cole then allowed both runners to move up with a wild pitch. He struck out Buster Posey, but then Brandon Belt doubled to make it 2-0.
The Pirates narrowly missed a big chance to make noise in the third.