 for his first multi-homer game in the majors. Hours earlier, Arcia hit a two-run homer in the second.Starling Marte had four hits for Pittsburgh, including a three-run homer off Josh Hader in the eighth for a 10-8 lead. It was Hader's first blown save in 14 chances this season.Keston Hiura hit a tying, two-run homer with one out in the Milwaukee ninth off Felipe Vazquez.Christian Yelich ended a 1-for-14 slump over his last six games in a big way. He hit his major league-leading 22nd homer, tripled and drove in four runs for Milwaukee.Mike Moustakas hit his third home run in as many games for the Brewers - his 16th of the year plunged into the Allegheny River. But he left in the ninth inning after suffering a right hand bruise from being hit by a pitch.Pinch-hitter Jose Osuna homered for the Pirates while Elias Diaz got three hits and drove in four runs.Milwaukee's lineup capitalized on struggling Nick Kingham, who lasted just three innings and gave up five runs on six hits with two home runs.Down 5-0, the Pirates scored four times in the third. Melky Cabrera started with an RBI single and Diaz hit a three-run double.Diaz hit an RBI single to make it 5-all in the fifth and two batters later, Osuna's third pinch-hit homer of his career gave Pittsburgh a 7-5 lead.Milwaukee starting pitcher Brandon Woodruff was charged with six runs over four innings, allowing a season-high 10 hits with two walks and five strikeouts.TRAINER'S ROOMBrewers: LHP Gio Gonzalez (2-1, 3.19) was placed on the 10-day injured list with what manager Craig Counsell labeled ''a dead arm.'' Gonzalez was scheduled to pitch the series finale on Sunday. In a corresponding move, C Manny Pina was activated from the IL.Pirates: Pittsburgh's Director of Sports Medicine, Tom Tomczyk, elaborated on the nature of RHP Keone Kela's right shoulder discomfort that will shut him down for 10 days. ''It's general wear and tear from a thrower's shoulder,'' Tomczyk said before the game. ''There are changes within the structures that are causing him tightness, causing him discomfort that he just doesn't feel as if he can let it go and be Keone right now.'' UP NEXTBrewers: RHP Zach Davies (5-0, 2.19) will start on Sunday in place of Gonzalez. Milwaukee is 7-4 in 11 games Davies has pitched this season.Pirates: RHP Jordan Lyles (5-2, 3.09) will make his 11th start of the season Sunday despite exiting his last outing after four innings with left hamstring discomfort. Lyles will face his former team having won four of his last five decisions.---More MLB: https://apnews.com/MLB and https://twitter.com/-Sports)
Pirates' Bell hopes to avoid June swoon vs. BrewersFLMPirates' Bell hopes to avoid June swoon vs. BrewersThe (relative) bad news for Josh Bell of the Pittsburgh Pirates is that May is over. That might also be good news for the visiting Milwaukee Brewers.In the Pirates' 9-4 win over the Brewers on Friday, Bell wrapped up the month with two singles, extending his single-month franchise record to 94 total bases.During May, he also tied a club record for any one month with 24 extra-base hits."It was a lot of fun," Bell told AT&T Sportsnet of his big month. "I was just trying to come ready to play." That's pretty much a given -- Bell has started at first base and in the cleanup spot in all 56 Pirates game this season.He's likely to be there Saturday when the Pirates and Brewers play the third game of a four-game series. They have split the first two.Milwaukee right-hander Brandon Woodruff (7-1, 3.22 ERA) is scheduled to face Pittsburgh righty Nick Kingham (1-1, 8.28 ERA).Woodruff seems to be on a steep upward trajectory. He is 6-0 with a 2.37 ERA over his past eight starts, 5-0 with a 1.42 ERA over his past five starts.And then came Sunday against Philadelphia. In a 9-1 win, Woodruff retired the first 15 batters he faced, set a career high with 10 strikeouts, tied his career high with eight innings pitched, and allowed just one baserunner -- Andrew Knapp, who hit a solo homer.The only way to top that Saturday would seem to be a perfect game, or at least a no-hitter, but Woodruff wasn't sweating over either against Philadelphia."I threw a no-hitter in high school, but never anything close to a perfect game," he said. "I didn't really think much about it. I was just out there trying to make pitches and get outs."I think I was just locked in." Against Pittsburgh, Woodruff is 0-1 with a 6.00 ERA in three career games, including one start.The Pirates' Kingham is getting at least one more shot trying to show he can be a starter in the major leagues. He burst into the big leagues 13 months ago when he retired the first 20 batters and allowed only one hit over seven innings against St. Louis.Since then, he has split time between the Pirates and Triple-A Indianapolis, and while in the major leagues has fallen into more of a bullpen role, but he has been needed with a string of injuries to starters.He's 5-8 with a 5.81 ERA in 18 career starts, 0-1 with an 8.53 ERA in three starts this season.Most recently, Kingham gave up three runs in 4 2/3 innings Monday in a no-decision at Cincinnati. That might be considered a step in the right direction after he gave up 13 runs and 19 hits in eight innings over his previous two starts.Going into that start, Kingham reached a decision -- he needs to be more aggressive."Go right at them. Put the ball in play," Kingham told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "If I walk you, you're never going to get out. I'm banking on you swinging at balls out of the (strike) zone."I think I'm not putting myself in position to get many swing-and-misses, honestly. I think I'm going 1-0, 2-0 and they're like, 'Hey man, the cookie's coming,' so they're looking for a fastball. It's hard to get swings and misses on a fastball, in fastball counts." Kingham is 2-1 with a 7.80 ERA in four games (three starts) in his career against Milwaukee, all last season.--Field Level Media
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