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MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Griffin Conine and Heriberto Hern\u00e1ndez homered and Janson Junk worked six solid inning as the Miami Marlins extended their winning streak to four games with an 8-2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Junk (6-7) allowed two runs, one earned, on four hits and a walk in six innings. Tyler Zuber, Calvin Faucher and Victor Vodnik each pitched a scoreless inning of relief.<\/p>\n
Conine reached base five times. He doubled leading off the third against Carmen Mlodzinski (6-5) with the game tied at 1. Hern\u00e1ndez followed with a walk before Agust\u00edn Ram\u00edrez doubled for a 2-1 lead one out later. That chased Mlodzinski, who was charged with four runs on five hits.<\/p>\n
Evan Sisk walked pinch-hitter Javier Sanoja to load the bases and hit Leo Jim\u00e9nez with a pitch before walking Joe Mack to force in two more runs. Xavier Edwards hit a sacrifice fly for a 5-1 lead. Sisk got two outs and yielded a run.<\/p>\n
Conine hit his 13th homer off<\/a> former Marlins reliever Lake Bachar for a 6-2 lead in the fourth. Bachar, acquired at the trade deadline, walked Conine before Hern\u00e1ndez’s 17th homer<\/a> for a six-run advantage in the sixth. The right-hander surrendered three runs on three hits in three innings.<\/p>\n Nick Gonzalez singled and scored on a two-out throwing error by shortstop Otto Lopez to give Pittsburgh a 1-0 lead in the second.<\/p>\n Edwards’ infield hit with two outs and the bases loaded tied it 1-all in the bottom of the inning.<\/p>\n Miami (62-59) is 38-24 at home. It is the team’s best 62-game run at home since 2003, when it won its second World Series. The Marlins trail the Phillies and Diamondbacks by 1 1\/2 games for the final NL wild card.<\/p>\n Valdez added a sacrifice fly in the fourth for Pittsburgh, who have gone 1-7 since the trade deadline.<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n Pirates RHP Braxton Ashcraft (11-5, 4.08) starts Thursday against RHP Tyler Phillips (3-5, 3.47) as the Marlins go for the series sweep.<\/p>\n