Home runs help push Pirates past Brewers


Jack Suwinski and Ke’Bryan Hayes homered Monday to assist the Pittsburgh Pirates down the visiting Milwaukee Brewers 4-2.

Andrew McCutchen added an RBI double for the Pirates (64-74), who’ve gained six of their previous seven video games.

Pittsburgh starter Luis Ortiz (4-4) pitched six innings, permitting two runs and 5 hits, with 4 strikeouts and three walks. David Bednar pitched an ideal ninth for his thirty second save.

Victor Caratini and Brice Turang every had an RBI sacrifice fly for the Brewers (76-61), who misplaced their second in a row.

Milwaukee starter Corbin Burnes (9-8) gave up 4 runs and 7 hits in six innings, with seven strikeouts and no walks. He has not gotten a win since July 20, going 0-3 in eight begins within the interim.

McCutchen left after the fifth due to what the Pirates known as left Achilles tendon tightness.

The Brewers plated each their runs earlier than they acquired successful. Within the second inning, Sal Frelick and Willy Adames walked and Mark Canha acquired hit by a pitch to load the bases with no outs. Frelick scored on Caratini’s flyout to proper, with Adames going to 3rd. Adames scored on Turang’s flyout to left for a 2-0 lead.

Pittsburgh tied it within the fourth. McCutchen led off with a double off the wall in left — simply lacking his three hundredth profession dwelling run — and went to 3rd on Connor Joe’s flyout to proper. Suwinski hit his twenty third homer, to heart, to make it 2-2.

With two outs and nobody on within the fifth, Hayes homered to left-center, his twelfth, to present the Pirates a 3-2 lead.

Bryan Reynolds got here up subsequent and doubled to proper. McCutchen, the designated hitter, appeared to tweak one thing in his left ankle space on a swing however remained in after utilizing a batter’s timeout. He then doubled to left to drive in Reynolds to push it to 4-2, with no obvious bother legging it out.

However after Joe flied out to heart to finish the inning, McCutchen favored his left leg strolling to the dugout and wanted some help. Josh Palacios pinch-hit for McCutchen within the eighth.

—Subject Degree Media