NATIONAL LEAGUE Fossum, Hillenbrand overwhelm Bucs, 6-3

Pittsburgh is 71/2 games back in the NL wild card race.
PHOENIX (AP) -- Casey Fossum adjusted his delivery and changed his luck in the process.
Fossum threw seven strong innings for his first win in over a month and Shea Hillenbrand hit a three-run homer to cap a five-run fifth inning and lead the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 6-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday night.
Fossum (3-12) scattered seven hits over seven innings to end a six-game losing skid and win for the first time since July 1.
He had toyed with shortening his stride by more than a foot during a between-start bullpen session and unveiled the new delivery against the Pirates.
"The first two or three innings, I was getting used to it," Fossum said. "Then in the fourth, I think with [Jason] Kendall up, I cut it loose."
Fossum retired eight straight hitters after Kendall's two-out single in the fourth and 10 of the final 11 batters he faced.
"Even early in the game it didn't look like he was throwing hard, but he made some pitches well," Arizona manager Al Pedrique said.
Streak snapped
Scott Hairston also homered for the Diamondbacks, who snapped Pittsburgh's four-game winning streak and won for just the second time in 13 games.
Jason Bay hit his 17th homer for the Pirates, who fell 71/2 games behind San Francisco in the NL wild card race.
"What you want to do is win every series you can," Pirates manager Lloyd McClendon said. "We came in and took two out of three."
Pittsburgh took an early 3-0 lead on Kendall's two-run double in the second and Bay's 452-foot homer onto the concourse behind the left-center field stands leading off the third.
Quinton McCracken cut the lead to 3-1 on an RBI single in the bottom of the third before Arizona took its first lead of the three-game series in the fifth against John Van Benschoten (0-1).
Hairston led off with his second homer in three games and Juan Brito doubled down the left-field line. After Fossum moved the runner over with a sacrifice bunt, McCracken hit a ground-rule double to left-center to score Brito and tie the game at 3.
Alex Cintron singled and, one out later, Hillenbrand hit his 13th homer into the left-field stands to give the Diamondbacks a 6-3 lead.
Greg Aquino pitched the ninth for his fifth save.