Giants 4, Rays 1: Brandon Belt homered among his three hits and Madison Bumgarner matched his season high with 11 strikeouts over seven strong innings as visiting San Francisco won the opener of the three-game interleague series.

Brandon Crawford also went deep for the Giants, who won their third straight contest following a 1-8 stretch. Bumgarner (11-6) yielded one run on seven hits and Sergio Romo relieved Javier Lopez after a one-out triple in the ninth by Jose Lobaton to notch his 26th save.

Belt forged a 1-1 tie with a two-out blast in the fifth off Chris Archer (6-4) and added an RBI triple before scoring on Crawford's two-run shot in the Giants' three-run seventh. Tampa Bay remained one game behind first-place Boston in the American League East.

Archer, who went 4-0 with a 0.73 ERA in five July starts, was charged with four runs on seven hits over seven frames. Tampa Bay scored its lone run in the third, when Lobaton hit a leadoff double and scored on Ben Zobrist’s single.

Belt fell a double shy of the cycle for the Giants, who have won three in a row for the first time since July 11-13. Bumgarner, who recorded double-digit strikeouts for the 12th time in his career, has allowed two runs in 22 innings over his last three starts.

GAME NOTEBOOK: The Giants pulled struggling LHP Barry Zito from the starting rotation and announced that RHP Guillermo Moscoso will start Sunday against the Rays. …Tampa Bay rookie RF Wil Myers went 0-for-3, ending his 12-game hitting streak. … Archer allowed more than three earned runs for the first time since his season debut on June 1.