PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 Oneil Cruz tripled home Isiah Kiner-Falefa with two outs in the seventh inning and the Pittsburgh Pirates edged the Milwaukee Brewers 2-1 on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Kiner-Falefa singled off Tyler Alexander (2-5) with one out and Cruz followed two batters later by sending a shot to the gap in right-center field. The 6-foot-7 Cruz \u2014 coming off the first multihomer game of his career in a victory Friday night \u2014 slid head-first into third, then popped up to celebrate.<\/p>\n
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Spencer Horwitz added two hits and drove in a run for the Pirates, who have won four of five. Chase Shugart (3-3) came on with the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh and got Milwaukee’s Jackson Chourio on a fly ball to right to end the threat. David Bednar worked out of a two-on, one-out jam in the ninth for his fifth save.<\/p>\n
Caleb Durbin had three hits for the Brewers. Christian Yelich added two singles, but Milwaukee left nine men on base to lose for the third time in four games.<\/p>\n
Pirates starter Mitch Keller pitched six stellar innings, allowing a run and seven hits with seven strikeouts. Yet Pittsburgh, as it has done consistently this season when Keller is on the mound, struggled to take advantage.<\/p>\n
Keller has received the lowest run support of any starter in the majors, and when he left, the game was tied at 1 thanks to a solid effort by Quinn Priester.<\/p>\n
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Priester, taken with the 18th overall selection by Pittsburgh in 2019 before being sent to Boston at last year’s trade deadline, kept his former team in check over a season-high six innings.<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
Pirates second baseman Adam Frazier made a slick spinning throw home for a force-out with the bases loaded in the seventh to keep the game tied.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/p>\n
364 \u2014 The number of career strikeouts by Keller at PNC Park, the most by a Pirates pitcher since the ballpark tucked against the Allegheny River opened in 2001.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
The series wraps up Sunday. Pittsburgh’s Bailey Falter (3-3, 3.50) has allowed just one earned run in his last 23 1\/3 innings. Rookie Logan Henderson (3-0, 1.69) gets the nod for the Brewers.<\/p>\n
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