Johnny Cueto earns 10th win as Giants sweep Brewers with 10-1 victory

SAN FRANCISCO - With such a big cushion on the scoreboard, this might have been just a time for Johnny Cueto to start that spontaneous wiggling, dancing and having fun on the mound.

All that movement earned him a costly, debated balk his last time out.

Cueto stuck to his delivery and did just fine. He struck out nine over seven innings for his team-leading 10th victory, and the Giants completed a sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers with a 10-1 win Wednesday.

“Today was a good day to do it, winning by a lot of runs,” he said with a smile about celebrating some from the mound. “It didn’t come out.”

Buster Posey hit a bases-loaded, two-run single in the third to get things going on a big offensive day, and Matt Duffy followed with an RBI single against Jimmy Nelson (5-6) as the Giants used a balanced hitting attack on the way to their fifth straight win.

“I gain confidence when my teammates are scoring runs for me,” Cueto said. “I hope we continue doing that.”

Four Giants had three hits to help NL West-leading San Francisco (41-26) move a season-high 15 games over .500.

Cueto (10-1) won his eighth straight against the Brewers, seventh consecutive decision overall and the Giants improved to 12-2 in his outings, including April 5 at Milwaukee. Cueto, who pitched for the Cincinnati Reds in the NL Central, is 11-3 in 20 career starts against Milwaukee.

“It was nice to get some runs and make it a little easier,” manager Bruce Bochy said. “We’ve been playing a lot of tight games so it was nice to be able to take him out after seven and give him a breather.”

After a season-best four-hit night in Tuesday’s 3-2 win, Posey had two more singles and finished the series 8 for 12 to raise his average from .251 to .274.

In the third, Duffy later scored on Milwaukee’s second throwing error of the inning to make it 4-0. The Giants added on a four-run fourth, too, highlighted by Angel Pagan’s run-scoring double and RBI singles from Joe Panik and Jarrett Parker.

Gregor Blanco, Duffy, Pagan and Panik all had three hits as the Giants wrapped up their homestand with an 11th victory in the last 13 games at AT&T Park.

After a leadoff single to Jonathan Villar, Cueto still faced the minimum through three with Villar getting caught stealing. Cueto became the 13th pitcher to win as many as eight straight against Milwaukee in the club’s history and the Giants earned their fifth sweep this season.

“It’s definitely big for us to get going like that,” Duffy said.

Nelson, who lost to the Giants on April 5, allowed eight runs to match a career high. The right-hander failed to pitch past the fourth inning for the first time this season.