Joey Ortiz, Caleb Durbin help Brewers pile on Pirates

Joey Ortiz hit two home runs and drove in four runs and Caleb Durbin added a home run, three RBIs and two runs to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 9-3 victory over the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates on Tu

Joey Ortiz, Caleb Durbin help Brewers pile on Pirates

Joey Ortiz hit two home runs and drove in four runs and Caleb Durbin added a home run, three RBIs and two runs to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 9-3 victory over the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night.

It was the first multi-homer game of Ortiz’s career, and the four RBIs matched a career high. Brice Turang extended his hit streak to nine games with a pair of hits and also scored a run, and Sal Frelick also had two hits and an RBI for Milwaukee, which won for the fifth time in its last six games.

Freddy Peralta (8-4) picked up the win, allowing three runs on seven hits while striking out eight over five-plus innings.

Nick Gonzales, coming off the first five-hit game of his career in Monday night’s series opener, hit a three-run homer for the Pirates. Bryan Reynolds doubled among his two hits for Pittsburgh, which had a two-game win streak snapped. Andrew Heaney (3-7) suffered the loss, allowing seven runs on seven hits over four-plus innings. He walked three and struck out three.

Milwaukee took a 2-0 lead in the third inning on a two-run homer by Ortiz, driving in Durbin, who had singled.

The Brewers extended the lead to 6-0 in the fourth on back-to-back home runs by Durbin, a three-run blast down the left field line, and Ortiz, a 398-foot drive into the bullpen in left-center.

Milwaukee made it 7-0 in the fifth when Jackson Chourio led off with a single, moved to second on a walk to Christian Yelich, advanced to third on a double play and scored on a wild pitch to the backstop by reliever Michael Darrell-Hicks.

Pittsburgh cut the lead to 7-3 in the sixth when Andrew McCutchen and Reynolds led off with back-to-back singles and Gonzales followed with a 395-foot home run to left-center.

Ortiz drove in his fourth run in the eighth with a bases-loaded fielder’s choice to make it 8-3, and Frelick added an RBI single to end the scoring.