Fielder hits 36th homer in Brewers’ 8-6 victory

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Prince Fielder, Ryan Braun and Jason Bourgeois homered and the Milwaukee Brewers snapped a three-game losing streak with an 8-6 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night.

The Brewers have won 19 consecutive games over Pittsburgh at Miller Park, last losing to the Pirates in Milwaukee on May 3, 2007.

Manny Parra (9-10) won for the fifth time in seven starts despite struggling most of the game. He allowed six runs and 10 hits, walked four and struck out two in six innings.

Trevor Hoffman pitched the ninth for his 28th save and upped his all-time record total to 582.

Pittsburgh starter Zach Duke (10-12) was attempting to set a career high in wins, but had his shortest outing of the year, allowing seven runs and 11 hits in three innings.

Pittsburgh rookie Andrew McCutchen went 3 for 5 with four RBIs. The center fielder had a single, double and home run to extend his hitting streak to 10 games, but missed hitting for the cycle when reliever Todd Coffey struck him out in the eighth.

Fielder hit a three-run homer in the first inning for the consecutive second game, but this time the Brewers held on for the win. Milwaukee scored four runs in the first inning Thursday but lost 8-5 to Cincinnati.

The first baseman hit a 1-1 pitch from Duke 448 feet into the stands in right-center. His 36th homer gave his a major-league leading 118 RBIs and gave Milwaukee a 3-0 lead.

Eight straight batters reached base in the inning, and consecutive RBI singles by Alcides Escobar and Parra made it 5-0 at the end of the first.

McCutchen’s double scored Lastings Milledge and Steve Pearce to bring Pittsburgh within 5-2 in the second.

Bourgeois hit his first major league home run in the bottom of the inning to give Milwaukee a 6-2 lead.

Pittsburgh made it 6-4 in the third on Pearce’s two-run double.