MLB: San Francisco 9, Texas 0

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Matt Cain threw 7 2/3 shutout innings Thursday and San Francisco put on a late surge to seize control of the World Series with a 9-0 victory over Texas.

San Francisco battered the Texas bullpen for seven runs in the eighth inning to blow open what had been a tense contest featuring a duel between Cain and C.J. Wilson.

The one-sided triumph left the Giants holding a 2-0 advantage in the best-of-seven series, which will resume Saturday with the first World Series game ever played in Arlington, Texas.

The teams combined for 18 runs, 25 hits and six errors in San Francisco's Game 1 victory and until the late-game explosion by the Giants, Game 2 was very different.

The contest began to go the way of the Giants, however, when Edgar Renteria hit a one-out homer off Wilson in the fifth on an 0-1 pitch.

Cain had preserved a scoreless tie in the top of the fifth after Ian Kinsler had led off the inning with a double and the San Francisco starter escaped trouble again in the sixth to keep the Giants in front.

Texas put runners on second and third with one away, but Cain got Nelson Cruz on a popup in foul territory and retired Kinsler on a fly ball to right to end the threat.

San Francisco added a run in the seventh when Cody Ross drew a lead-off walk, moved to second on a groundout by Aubrey Huff and came in on Juan Uribe's single.

The Rangers then saw all hopes of a comeback erased by the bombardment of four relief pitchers in the eighth -- all of the damage being done after the first two batters had been retired.

San Francisco scored in the eighth on a pair of bases-loaded walks to Huff and Uribe, a two-run single by Renteria, a two-run triple by Aaron Rowand and an RBI double by Andres Torres.

Cain allowed four hits and walked two. Wilson gave up two runs on three hits in six innings before the Texas relief corps was taken apart.

San Francisco is two wins away from its first World Series title since moving from New York more than a half century ago. The last triumph for the Giants came in 1954 and they have come up short in four World Series appearances since then.