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PITTSBURGH — Pedro Alvarez had two home runs for the second consecutive game and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Milwaukee Brewers 15-3 Wednesday night.
The Pirates’ prized rookie hit a two-run homer to center in the fifth and a solo shot off the right-field pole in the eighth.
Delwyn Young had a home run and a career-high five RBIs to help Pittsburgh win for the fourth time in five games. On Tuesday, Alvarez had a grand slam and a solo homer in the Pirates’ 11-9 win over Milwaukee.
George Kottaras homered for the Brewers, who had a starting pitcher allow more then 10 runs for the third time in four games.
Pittsburgh has won four of five and improved its home record to 23-22 — despite being 26 games under .500 overall.
Randy Wolf (7-9) allowed a career-high 12 runs and 13 hits in 5 2-3 innings, and his ERA went from 4.56 to 5.20.
Zach Duke (4-9) allowed three runs, two earned, on six in six-plus innings for the win.
The Pirates, who had a nine-run first inning Tuesday, scored six in the fourth Wednesday and only had two scoreless innings out of eight.
Young — in the lineup only because Andrew McCutchen is out with a shoulder injury — hit a three-run homer in the fourth and had RBI singles in the first and sixth innings.
The last time the Pirates had a player with five RBIs in two straight games was May 3-4, 1973, when Al Oliver had six May 3 at San Francisco and Rennie Stennett drive in five the next day in San Diego.
Pirates catcher Ryan Doumit left the game after three innings due to feeling light-headed and nauseated. Doumit, replaced by Erik Kratz, missed Tuesday's game after taking a foul ball off his mask during Monday's game.
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