Bucs keep it in the park, outslug Crew in win

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MILWAUKEE — In a game of big innings, it was the Pirates who hung the last crooked number on the scoreboard Saturday night.

Gregory Polanco came off the bench to hit a tiebreaking, three-run double in the sixth for a 9-6 win over the Brewers at Miller Park, where it was a bad night to be a pitcher. Six different Pirates batters drove in at least one run, but only three different Brewers brought runs home. Third baseman Hernan Perez homered twice and drove in four runs by the third inning, and relief pitcher Tyler Cravy homered for his first Major League hit in the fourth, tying a wild game at 6-6.

The Pirates kept coming. They erased starter Jameson Taillon’s early 5-1 deficit by scoring five runs in the fourth inning against Brewers starter Jimmy Nelson. Then, after Cravy’s home run tied the game, they pushed ahead again in the decisive sixth. With two on and one out, Brewers reliever Blaine Boyer intentionally walked Andrew McCutchen to face pinch-hitter Polanco, who bucked a .138 average in 61 previous plate appearances at Miller Park to line a …

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