ATLANTA Braves rally to defeat Pirates, 8-6

Pittsburgh pitching gave up five home runs in the loss.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Javy Lopez hit a solo home run leading off the eighth inning, his second of Saturday's game, and the Atlanta Braves rallied to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 8-6.
Gary Sheffield, Andruw Jones and Chipper Jones also connected for the Braves, who lead the NL with 94 home runs.
Andruw Jones hit the 200th homer of his career.
Atlanta won its fourth in a row and the Pirates lost for the fourth time in five games.
Lopez hit the first pitch from Brian Boehringer (3-2) to left-center field for a 7-6 lead. Lopez has 16 homers this season after hitting just 11 all of last year.
Marcus Giles singled to drive in Vinny Castilla later in the eighth for an insurance run.
In the sixth, Lopez hit his first of two solo shots to bring the Braves within 6-5, and they tied it in the seventh on a run-scoring double by Giles.
Roberto Hernandez (5-2) pitched a scoreless eighth, and John Smoltz came on in the ninth for his 23rd save in 24 chances.
Reggie Sanders had two hits, scored a run and drove in another during a sixth-run fifth for Pittsburgh.
Brian Giles went 4-for-5.
Sanders led off the fifth with a double off the glove of a sliding Chipper Jones in left field, and Jack Wilson hit a liner that bounced off pitcher Shane Reynolds for an infield single.
After a walk to Jeff Reboulet loaded the bases, pitcher Kip Wells singled back up the middle to drive in two runs, and Kenny Lofton also singled. That loaded the bases again, and Reboulet scored on a single by Jason Kendall.
That finished Reynolds, and Brian Giles greeted reliever Ray King with an infield single to first, scoring Wells. Lofton scored on a sacrifice fly by Aramis Ramirez, and after Randall Simon struck out, Sanders capped the scoring with an RBI single.
The Braves had taken a 4-0 lead on solo homers by Sheffield and Andruw Jones, and a two-run shot by Chipper Jones.
Notes
Ramirez singled in the fourth to extend his hitting streak to a career-high 19 games.
The players who reached 200 home runs faster than Andruw Jones were Mel Ott, Eddie Mathews, Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Mantle, Alex Rodriguez and Frank Robinson.
A day after the series opener was postponed by inclement weather, a steady rain fell for most of the first five innings. During the Pirates' six-run fifth, the grounds crew came out and sanded the mound and the area around home plate.
PITTSBURGHATLANTA
abrhbiabrhbi
Lofton cf5110Furcal ss5110
Kendall c5121MGiles 2b5022
BGiles lf5041Shffield rf3221
ARmrz 3b4011CJones lf4122
Simon 1b4000AJones cf4111
KYong 1b0000Fick 1b3010
RSndrs rf4121JuFrco 1b1000
JWilsn ss4110JLopez c4222
Rboulet 2b2100Castilla 3b4120
Wells p2112Rynlds p2000
Hyzdu ph1000King p0000
STorres p0000Grybsk p0000
Beimel p0000MFrco ph1000
Tvarez p0000Bong p0000
Srbeck p0000RHrndz p0000
Mckwk ph1000Bragg ph1000
Bhrngr p0000Smoltz p0000
Totals376126Totals378138
Pittsburgh000060000--6
Atlanta11200112x--8
DP--Atlanta 1. LOB--Pittsburgh 7, Atlanta 7. 2B--BGiles (10), RSanders (7), MGiles (20), Castilla (9). HR--Sheffield (17), CJones (10), AJones (15), JLopez 2 (16). SB--Sheffield (10). SF--ARamirez.
IPHRERBBSO
Pittsburgh
Wells574415
STorres132210
Beimel1-300000
Tavarez1-300001
Sauerbeck1-300001
Boehringer L,3-2132201
Atlanta
Reynolds476611
King2-320001
Gryboski1 1-300001
Bong120000
RHrndz W,5-2100011
Smoltz S,23110001
STorres pitched to 3 batters in the 7th, Reynolds pitched to 6 batters in the 5th. Umpires--Home, Joe Brinkman; First, Derryl Cousins; Second, Mike DiMuro; Third, Andy Fletcher.
T--3:01. A--35,397.