{"id":258767,"date":"2026-08-04T04:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T04:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258767\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T04:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T04:44:08","slug":"pittsburgh-pirates-continue-to-beat-milwaukee-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258767\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates continue to beat Milwaukee Brewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoonamirror.com\/sports\/pennsylvania-sports\/\" class=\"article_cat_label\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/B1Endy-206x300.webp\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<br \/>\nThe Pirates\u2019 Endy Rodriguez reacts as he looks to an umpire.<\/p>\n<p>MILWAUKEE &#8212; Spencer Horwitz hit a three-run double and the Pittsburgh Pirates extended their dominance over the Brewers this season, beating Milwaukee 4-3 on Monday night in the opener of a four-game series.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh has won six of seven games against the NL Central-leading Brewers this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates jumped on Brewers starter Brandon Sproat (3-7) in the third. Brandon Lowe and Bryan Reynolds singled and Esmerlyn Valdez walked. Horwitz followed with a bases-clearing double that staked Pittsburgh to a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates added a run in the fourth when Endy Rodriguez led off with a single and moved to third on consecutive wild pitches by Sproat, who was then replaced by Garrett Stallings, with Jacob Gonzalez still at-bat. Stallings eventually struck out Gonzalez before walking Henry Davis and giving up a soft bunt single to Jake Mangum that scored Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>Pirates starter Bubba Chandler (4-8) held the Brewers without a hit until David Hamilton&#8217;s single up the middle with two outs in the fifth. Joey Ortiz followed with another base hit that drove in Jake Bauers, who had walked leading off the inning.<\/p>\n<p>The Brewers cut the lead to 4-3 in the sixth, with one run scoring on Andrew Vaughn&#8217;s single and another on a throwing error, after which Chandler was lifted.<\/p>\n<p>Mason Montgomery pitched a scoreless ninth for his third save in five tries.<\/p>\n<p>Chandler allowed four hits and three runs (two earned) in 5\u00aa innings. He walked four and struck out five.<\/p>\n<p>Sproat gave up five hits and four runs in three innings. He struck out four, walked two and threw three wild pitches.<\/p>\n<p>Before the game, the Pirates placed right-handed pitcher Mitch Keller on the 60-day injured list and recalled left-handed pitcher Brandon Eisesrt from Triple-A Indianapolis. Also, the Brewers designated RHP Carlos Rodriguez for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Pirates RHP Jared Jones (2-2, 3.81 ERA) will face Brewers RHP Logan Henderson (5-1, 2.66) tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Sports The Associated Press The Pirates\u2019 Endy Rodriguez reacts as he looks to an umpire. MILWAUKEE &#8212;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-258767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}