MILWAUKEE -- The Giants gave homegrown ace Logan Webb a couple of days of extra rest to help him get over a lower back issue that forced him to exit his last start after six innings. The 26-year-old right-hander seemed to come back stronger than ever. 

Webb went toe-to-toe with former National League Cy Young Award winner Corbin Burnes, striking out 11 over seven innings of one-run ball to carry the Giants to a 3-1 win over the Brewers at American Family Field on Saturday afternoon. 

“That was exceptional today,” manager Gabe Kapler said. “It felt like he put the ball where he wanted to put it today with three different pitches. He looked super strong. He didn’t look like a pitcher that even needed a couple of extra days, but certainly, it looked like it was useful for him. The ball was coming out really well. It was as sharp as he’s been all year. Really, really good performance.”  

After taking the first three games of this four-game series, San Francisco has now won 10 of its last 12 contests to improve to 27-25 on the season.  

Webb opened his outing with six shutout innings and took a one-run lead into the bottom of the seventh, but the Brewers finally broke through after Brice Turang delivered a two-out triple to right field and scored on Victor Caratini’s game-tying single. Caratini tried to stretch his single into a double, but he was thrown out at second base by Michael Conforto for the final out of the inning. 

Still, the Giants quickly regained the lead in the top of the eighth, when Mitch Haniger hammered a go-ahead, two-run home run to straightaway center field off Brewers reliever Peter Strzelecki. It was the third hit of the afternoon for Haniger, who scuffled at the plate early this season but is now batting .364 (12-for-33) with two home runs and eight RBIs over his last nine games.

“I’ve been feeling good,” Haniger said. “Like I said the other day, I’m constantly trying to make adjustments and working on things. I feel like I’ve had some consistency here and the timing’s felt good, so I’m just trying to build off that.”

The other secret to Haniger’s recent breakout? Sour Patch Kids. 

Rookie infielder Casey Schmitt -- who drew his first career walk in his 69th career plate appearance on Saturday -- said he gave Haniger “one singular” Sour Patch Kid before each of the last two games. Haniger responded by homering in two consecutive days.  

“I get on him for bringing food into the dugout, but he gave me Sour Patch Kids yesterday and today, so we’ll keep it going,” Haniger said. “One’s not going to kill you once in a while.”   

Webb earned the win after allowing only four hits and striking out one in the 107-pitch effort, which lowered his ERA to 2.75 through 11 starts this year. After going 0-4 with a 4.94 ERA over his first four outings, Webb is now 4-1 with a 1.68 ERA over his last six appearances.

Saturday marked Webb’s fifth career double-digit strikeout game and his first since he whiffed 12 on Opening Day at Yankee Stadium. Seven of Webb’s strikeouts came on his changeup, but he also got two on his slider and two on his four-seam fastball, which he throws only 3.6 percent of the time. 

“Honestly, I think I had pretty good feel for all three of my pitches today,” Webb said. “Even the four-seam that I threw a couple of times, I felt like I could put it where I wanted to. I don’t feel like you have many days where it’s like that, but I felt like today was one of those days.”  

Thanks largely to his elite sinker, Webb entered Saturday with a career-high 61.6 percent ground-ball rate -- second-best in the Majors behind teammate Alex Cobb -- but he threw two four-seam fastballs up in the zone to record back-to-back strikeouts of Turang and Caratini in the fifth, drawing some good-natured ribbing from bullpen coach Craig Albernaz and pitching coach Andrew Bailey.  

“I’ve got like a joke with them because my four-seam is not very good,” Webb said. “I felt good throwing it in the bullpen before. I’ve always got to just pick my spots with that pitch. I think leading up to that, I’d been down in the zone most of the time against those guys. You can’t go to the well too many times, but when I do, I like to make a joke of it with the guys.”