PITTSBURGH -- Stellar pitching has carried the Giants over the last week, but on Saturday afternoon, it was their bats' turn to return the favor.

Wilmer Flores and Austin Slater homered, and Brandon Crawford added two RBIs to lead a balanced offensive effort for the Giants, who held on for a 7-5 victory at PNC Park that clinched their first series win over the Pirates since July 2017.

The Giants went 4-for-14 with runners in scoring position, though they still managed to push across enough runs to pick up left-hander Alex Wood, who allowed four runs on six hits over 5 1/3 innings. Six different players drove in at least one run for the Giants, who have now won three straight series and seven of their last eight games to move a season-high 10 games over .500 at 37-27.

“I think we do that quite often,” manager Gabe Kapler said of the team-wide contributions. “I think we can point to a lot of games and say it was no one individual that won it for us, although we’ve had some great efforts by various individuals. But for the most part, we’re a mix-and-match, team-style club.”

San Francisco had to survive some late-inning drama, as the Pirates cut the deficit to 6-5 on Daniel Vogelbach’s leadoff shot in the eighth and continued to threaten by loading the bases with two outs against Dominic Leone. Kapler brought in veteran lefty Jake McGee to face Tyler Heineman, who worked a 10-pitch at-bat before popping out to end the inning.

Still, San Francisco had an injury scare in the process, as Heineman fouled a ball off Curt Casali’s right knee, leaving the veteran catcher in serious pain. The Giants started their other catcher, Austin Wynns, at designated hitter and then pinch-hit for him in the sixth, so they had no choice but to stick with Casali, who has also been hampered by hamstring tightness recently.

Casali said afterward that he’s fine, though he recognized that he wasn’t coming out of the game at that point since the Giants had no other backstops available off the bench.

“It’s one of the single-worst places you can get hit as a catcher,” Casali said. “It is what it is. Nothing’s broken. It’s just a touchy spot to get hit. Just got to bear down and grind, I guess.”

Crawford, who delivered a game-tying RBI single to kick off a two-run rally against Pittsburgh’s bullpen in the sixth, gave the Giants extra breathing room with an RBI double off Heath Hembree in the top of the ninth. Crawford’s second hit of the game came after the Pirates elected to intentionally walk Brandon Belt ahead of him to put a pair of runners on with two outs.

“I don’t think you ever want to see an intentional walk in front of you, but I also get it with Belt and the 2-0 count and a runner on third,” Crawford said. “I get it in a way, but you definitely want to do some damage after something like that.”

The Giants were held to three or fewer runs in seven of their previous 10 games, but they kept the pressure on against the Pirates, scoring in six of nine innings to climb out of a 4-2 hole that resulted from Diego Castillo’s three-run homer off Wood in the third.

Crawford’s production was particularly encouraging, as the 35-year-old shortstop entered Saturday with a .657 OPS over 58 games this season, down from the career-high .895 OPS he posted en route to an MVP-caliber campaign in 2021. Crawford, who batted eighth on Saturday, said he’s been feeling better about his swing lately, which could bode well for the Giants, who will need veterans like Crawford, Belt and Evan Longoria to carry their offense moving forward.

“It’s been a grind for Brandon recently, but he’s such a professional and so ready for the biggest moments,” Kapler said. “I’m sure the intentional walk locked him in a little bit. I thought he took good swings overall today. He had good at-bats and a good plan and approach at the plate.”

The Giants have still struggled to consistently cash in on scoring opportunities and put together big innings, which is partly explained by their recent streak of solo home runs. Each of their last 10 homers, including Flores and Slater’s blasts, have come without runners on base, though Kapler said he’s confident that streak will come to an end soon.

“I still think we’re right there, pushing right up against the line, but not able to kind of make the dam break right now,” Kapler said. “That’s going to come. We’ll just keep getting on base via the walk, keep having good, quality at-bats, working pitchers. The net result will be we’ll come up with the big hit and clear the bases at some point. We just haven’t gotten there over the last couple of days.”