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Matt Joyce Homers in Pirates Win

PITTSBURGH — Matt Joyce homered and doubled among his three hits as Pittsburgh beat Los Angeles 8-6 on Friday night, ending the Dodgers’ six-game winning streak and giving Pirates manager Clint Hurdle his 1,000th career victory.

Joyce drove in two runs while filling in for right fielder Gregory Polanco, who sat out with lower leg discomfort. His RBI single in a two-run fifth inning helped push the Pirates’ lead to 7-4 and his eighth homer, a solo shot in the seventh off Chris Hatcher, made it 8-6.

Jung Ho Kang also homered as the Pirates won for just the third time in 16 games. Sean Rodriguez had three RBIs and Starling Marte added two hits.

Dodgers rookie shortstop Corey Seager had four hits to extend his hitting streak to eight games. He is 16 for 34 (.471) during the streak and has six extra-base hits in his last six games.

Yasiel Puig homered for Los Angeles.

Neftali Feliz (2-0), the fourth of six Pirates pitchers, retired all five batters he faced and Mark Melancon pitched a scoreless ninth for his 21st save in 22 opportunities.

Nick Tepesch (0-1) gave up five runs and seven hits in just four innings in his first major league appearance since Sept. 26, 2014 with Texas. Called up from Triple-A Oklahoma City before the game, Tepesch struck out three and walked none.

He was 3-0 with a 2.00 ERA in three starts with Oklahoma City after the Rangers released him from Triple-A Round Rock.

Pirates rookie starter Jameson Taillon had a second consecutive poor start, allowing four runs and eight hits in four-plus innings with two strikeouts and one walk. He has surrendered a combined eight runs and 16 hits in eight innings in his last two starts after giving up just three runs and eight hits in 14 innings over his first two outings.

Puig hit a 439-foot solo home run, his sixth, into the second tier of bleachers in left field in the sixth inning off Jared Hughes to pull the Dodgers to 7-5. Justin Turner’s sacrifice fly later in the inning made it a one-run game.

Puig, Turner and Chase Utley had two hits each for the Dodgers, who homered for the 14th straight game to tie Washington for the longest streak in the majors this season.

The teams combined for 25 hits, 13 by the Pirates.

The Pirates opened the scoring with a four-run second as Rodriguez hit a two-run single, John Jaso had an RBI single and Marte doubled in a run.

The Dodgers cut the lead in half in the top of the third when Turner hit an RBI double and scored on a balk by Taillon.

Kang’s homer, his 11th, led off the bottom of the third put the Pirates in front 5-2 but the Dodgers cut the deficit to one run in the fifth on an RBI single by Seager and a sacrifice fly by Adrian Gonzalez.

Joyce’s RBI single and Rodriguez’s sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fifth restored the Pirates’ three-run lead at 7-4.

Mets 8, Braves 6

ATLANTA (AP) — James Loney hit a three-run homer, Travis d’Arnaud drove in three runs and the New York Mets survived Atlanta’s six-run fifth inning to beat the Braves 8-6 on Friday night.

The Mets led 8-0 after Loney’s three-run homer in the fifth. Steven Matz almost blew the lead as he allowed six runs on eight hits in the bottom of the inning.

Brandon Snyder hit a pinch-hit, three-run homer and Adonis Garcia had a two-run double in Atlanta’s big inning.

Orioles 6, Rays 3

BALTIMORE (AP) — Adam Jones homered to ignite a four-run sixth inning, and the Baltimore Orioles defeated Tampa Bay 6-3 on Friday night to extend the Rays’ losing streak to eight games.

Manny Machado of the Orioles marked his return from a four-game suspension by hitting his 18th home run in the eighth. Machado received the suspension for charging Royals pitcher Yordano Ventura on June 7.

After falling into an early 3-0 hole, the Orioles finally got their first baserunner against Matt Moore (3-5) in the fifth inning and turned the game around in the sixth.

Cubs 5, Marlins 4

MIAMI (AP) — Rookie Willson Contreras homered and drove in three runs to help the Chicago Cubs break their longest losing streak of the season at four games by beating the Miami Marlins 5-4 Friday night.

Contreras hit a two-run homer in the Cubs’ four-run first inning. His RBI single in the seventh put the team with the best record in the majors ahead to stay. He’s batting .412 with three homers and eight RBIs after seven games in the big leagues.

Indians 7, Tigers 4

DETROIT (AP) — Jason Kipnis hit two of Cleveland’s four triples and the Indians continued their season-long dominance of the Detroit Tigers with a 7-4 victory Friday night.

The AL Central-leading Indians are now 7-0 against the Tigers this season. Detroit had won 16 of 20 at home and was coming off a four-game sweep of the Seattle Mariners.

Danny Salazar (9-3) struggled with his command, walking five in 5 2/3 innings, but held the Tigers to three runs on four hits.

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