MILWAUKEE (Interstat) — Bubba Chandler pitched 5 2/3 innings and Spencer Horwitz drove in three runs as Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 on Monday, Aug. 3, at American Family Field.

Chandler allowed four hits and two earned runs with five strikeouts to improve to 4-8. Mason Montgomery earned his third save with a scoreless ninth inning. Brandon Sproat took the loss, falling to 3-7.

Pittsburgh took control with three runs in the third inning, when Horwitz doubled to right field to plate Bryan Reynolds, Brandon Lowe and Esmerlyn Valdez. Endy Rodríguez scored on Jake Mangum’s bunt single in the fourth for a 4-0 lead. Milwaukee responded in the fifth on Joey Ortiz’s RBI single and closed within a run in the sixth on Andrew Vaughn’s two-run single.

Horwitz finished 1 for 4, while Rodríguez went 3 for 4 for the Pirates. Ortiz went 3 for 4 for the Brewers, who had six hits. Pittsburgh had eight. The Pirates improved to 57-57. Milwaukee fell to 69-43. Attendance was 30,684 and the game lasted 2:40.