NATIONAL LEAGUE Cubs' 2 homers subdue Pirates

Damian Miller and Alex Gonzalez connected to snap the Bucs' streak, 5-4.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Hee Seop Choi acknowledged the Chicago Cubs got a break.
Damian Miller hit a three-run homer and Alex Gonzalez added a two-run shot as the Cubs beat Pittsburgh 5-4 Wednesday to snap the Pirates' three-game winning streak.
Jeff D'Amico (4-5) dropped to 6-1 against the Cubs, giving up all five runs and five hits in seven innings.
Chicago, out-hit 9-5, overcame a 2-0 deficit in the second after Choi reached on a leadoff grounder to shortstop Abraham Nunez. While it appeared on replays that Choi was beaten by the throw, first-base umpire Bill Hohn called him safe, prompting Pirates manager Lloyd McClendon to argue.
"I saw it on TV after the game, out, but I will take it," Choi said.
McClendon thought the same.
"He said he [Hohn] saw him safe," McClendon said. "If you're a big league umpire you can't miss that play. You cost a team on the road, that's battling, three runs. To me, that's disgusting. [D'Amico] has to throw 15 extra pitches this inning."
Miller connects
Two outs later, Mark Bellhorn singled, and Miller followed with a three-run homer.
Mark Prior then came to the plate and three pitches into the at-bat, McClendon was ejected by Hohn for continuing to argue. It was McClendon's second ejection this season.
McClendon also was upset after the game about Brian Giles being called out at the plate in the sixth.
Giles came home on Aramis Ramirez's grounder to third baseman Mark Bellhorn and was tagged out by Miller at the plate.
"Go back and look at the replay," McClendon said. "The fact is Giles' foot is on the plate. We're all held accountable -- just do your job, that's all I ask."
Borowski gets save
Prior (6-2) struck out eight in 72/3 innings, allowing four runs and eight hits. Mike Remlinger relieved and escaped an eighth-inning jam when Randall Simon flied out, and Joe Borowski finished for his 10th save in 12 chances.
Gonzalez's homer gave Chicago a 5-2 lead in the fourth, and Prior held the Pirates in check until the eighth. Jack Wilson, pinch-hitting for D'Amico, doubled leading off and scored on a one-out single by Jeff Reboulet. Aramis Ramirez chased Prior with a RBI double.
Prior struck out the side in the first, but Pittsburgh went ahead in the second on Craig Wilson's two-out RBI double and Rob Mackowiak's run-scoring single.