Milwaukee Brewers vs Pittsburgh Pirates Match Player Stats On Sep 23, 2018

Christian Yelich and Travis Shaw hit towering home runs Sunday as the visiting Milwaukee Brewers clobbered the Pittsburgh Pirates 13-6.

Milwaukee scored four runs on wild pitches, two on bases-loaded walks and one on a bases-loaded hit batsman.

The Brewers won two of three in the weekend series after having trouble with Pittsburgh all year. The Pirates won the season series 12-7.

Milwaukee (89-67) remains 2 1/2 games behind the first-place Chicago Cubs (91-64) in the National League Central and two games in front of the St. Louis Cardinals (87-69) in the race for the first NL wild card.

Josh Harrison and Jordy Mercer hit two-run doubles and Adam Frazier homered for Pittsburgh (78-76).

Milwaukee starter Wade Miley pitched four-plus innings, giving up four runs (three earned) and four hits. Corey Knebel (3-3) finished the fifth with three strikeouts.

Pirates right-hander Nick Kingham (5-7), making a spot start after Joe Musgrove got shut down because of an abdominal issue, lasted 1 1/3 innings, giving up six runs (five earned) and seven hits.

In the first, Milwaukee loaded the bases on three singles and took a 1-0 lead when Kingham hit Mike Moustakas with a pitch.

The Brewers added five in the second. Orlando Arcia doubled and Miley walked. An out later, Yelich cracked a 439-foot homer to right-center for a 4-0 lead.

Lorenzo Cain reached on an error before Shaw let loose with a 425-foot homer that reached the Allegheny River on a bounce and roll, making it 6-0.

In the third with runners at the corners, reliever Tanner Anderson's wild pitch upped Milwaukee's lead to 7-0.

Through four innings, Miley gave up one hit, a second-inning single to Elias Diaz. In the fifth, Daiz led off with a walk. Jordan Luplow singled and Jose Osuna reached on an error to load the bases. Harrison and Mercer followed with successive two-run doubles to close the deficit to 7-4.

Pittsburgh reliever Steven Brault left with the bases loaded and no outs in the sixth. Michael Feliz walked in two runs, then dished up an inaccurate pitch that led to all three runners scoring. Two came home on the wild pitch, a third runner came around when Feliz committed an error by failing to catch the throw to the plate from catcher Diaz.

Moustakas' leadoff homer to right made it 13-4 in the eighth, and Frazier hit a two-run homer in the ninth for the final score.

--Field Level Media