SAN FRANCISCO -- Josh Lester waited a long time for this moment.

It was worth the wait.

After playing in 795 Minor League games across eight seasons, Lester recorded his first Major League hit Sunday, a two-run single to help the Orioles to an 8-3 win over the San Francisco Giants.

“It’s something that I’ve looked forward to for my entire life, since I was 5 years old playing baseball,” Lester said. “But for it to come in a big moment of the game like that with some guys on was even better.”

Lester came to the plate with the bases loaded and two outs in the third and delivered a line drive to center to drive in two runs. A third run came home on an error to make it 6-0 as Baltimore batted around in the inning.

“What a cool moment for Josh Lester,” manager Brandon Hyde said. “A lot of Minor League time and gets an opportunity and just gets an enormous hit for us.”

Added Lester: “I think I might’ve blacked out a little bit. Obviously, just a surreal moment. It’s been a long time in the Minor Leagues and a little bit of last year in the big leagues. Getting that first hit is just a huge moment.”

A 13th-round Draft pick of the Tigers in 2015, Lester finally got his first taste of the big leagues last season with Detroit, going 0-for-5 in two games. The 28-year-old elected free agency after the season and signed a Minor League contract with the Orioles in December.

Lester was selected from Triple-A Norfolk on Saturday and got the start at third base Sunday.

“Somebody that’s never been on a top prospect list or somebody that’s drafted in the 13th round,” Hyde said. “His story is a great one.”

Lester made sure to save the baseball, though he wasn’t quite sure where it would end up just yet.

“It’s either going to go with my parents or I’m going to ship it to my fiancée and we’ll put it in our house,” he said.

James McCann added his third home run of the season, a solo shot in the sixth, providing more than enough run support for Tyler Wells. The right-hander recorded a career-high nine strikeouts and limited the Giants to two runs on four hits and two walks in 5 1/3 innings.

“I thought Wellsy was really good,” Hyde said. “He was mixing speeds so well. This is a really good fastball-hitting team. They’re aggressive on fastballs. We saw that against [Kyle] Bradish and [Dean] Kremer early in that game [on Friday and Saturday]. Wellsy did a great job of mixing.”

Wells (4-2) has struck out at least seven batters in five consecutive starts and he continues to lead the Majors with a 0.85 WHIP.

“I wasn’t trying to strike out a lot of guys today,” he said. “I was just trying to hit my spots, and fortunately, it worked out that way.”

The Orioles took two of three from San Francisco to continue their road dominance, improving to 20-10 away from home, tied for the best mark in the Majors.

Baltimore has won eight of its 10 road series this year.

“I think we have a bunch of pros that are ready to play and come to the park prepared,” Hyde said. “This is not an easy place to play, especially day games here with the sun, the wind. It’s definitely different. So to get two out of three here is a good series for us.”