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Seattle knocks off Bucs

PITTSBURGH — Kyle Lewis hit his fifth home run since debuting Sept. 10, and the Seattle Mariners beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-1 Wednesday night for their fourth straight win.

With Seattle leading 2-0 in the fourth inning, Lewis sent a sinker from Pirates starter Dario Agrazal (4-5) 383 feet to right field for a solo home run. It came after the 24-year-old rookie right fielder, who has homered in five of his eight major league games, struck out four times Tuesday.

Agrazal allowed a second straight batter to go deep when Tom Murphy took him 420 feet to center field for his 18th home run and a 4-0 lead. The Pirates’ rookie right-hander allowed the four runs and six hits while striking out six in five innings.

Tommy Milone (4-9) relieved Justin Dunn to start the third inning for Seattle before allowing two hits and using just 51 pitches to get through five shutout innings. Matt Magill allowed back-to-back singles to start the ninth before retiring the next three batters for his fifth save.

The Pirates lost a fifth straight game since winning three of four from Sept. 9-12. They have been outscored 57-16 during the losing streak, including 10-1 in the first two games of this series.

Dylan Moore put the Mariners ahead 2-0 with a two-out, two-run double down the left field line in the second inning.

Cole Tucker hit a pinch-hit triple for Pittsburgh before scoring on a groundout from Kevin Newman, making it 4-1 in the eighth. Newman has a 12-game hitting streak.

Pirates outfielder Bryan Reynolds returned to the lineup after sitting Tuesday.

Minor league honors

The Pirates named James Marvel their minor league pitcher of the year and Mason Martin the player of the year on Wednesday.

Marvel started the season with the Curve and went 16-5 with a 2.94 ERA between Altoona and Triple-A Indianapolis.

Martin hit 35 homers and drove in 129 runs while batting .254 between low-A Greensboro and high-A Bradenton. He will be in line to join the Curve at some point next season.

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