Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Milwaukee 6, Pittsburgh 4
When: 8:10 PM ET, Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Where: Miller Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Andy Fletcher, 1B - Bill Welke, 2B - Tim Welke, 3B - Jim Reynolds
Attendance: 41864

Prince Fielder belted three homers and the host Milwaukee Brewers beat the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates 6-4 Tuesday, moving closer to clinching home field for the first round of the playoffs.

The Brewers were on the verge of wrapping up the second-best record in the National League but Arizona rallied for six runs in the bottom of the 10th inning to beat Los Angeles 7-6 later Tuesday. Milwaukee leads the Diamondbacks by one game.

Fielder crushed his first two homers off Ross Ohlendorf, depositing a high fastball into the upper deck in right and golfing a low fastball over the fence in dead center.

With the score tied 4-4 in the seventh, Ryan Braun walked and Fielder sent a pitch by Jared Hughes (0-1) just inside the right-field foul pole to make a winner of LaTroy Hawkins (3-1). Fielder's five-RBI night gave him 120 for the season with 38 homers.

John Axford earned his 46th save in 48 chances with a 1-2-3 ninth.

Braun, vying with the New York Mets’ Jose Reyes for the NL batting title, went 1-for-2 with two walks and is hitting .335. If he can overtake Reyes (.336), Braun will become the first Brewer to a win a batting crown.

Milwaukee has won 42 of its last 48 meetings with Pittsburgh at Miller Park.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Pittsburgh   Milwaukee
Ross Ohlendorf Player Randy Wolf
No Decision W/L No Decision
5.0 IP 5.2
3 Strikeouts 3
5 Hits 9
7.20 ERA 6.35
Hitting
Pittsburgh   Milwaukee
Alex Presley Player Prince Fielder
2 Hits 3
1 RBI 5
0 HR 3
2 TB 12
.500 Avg 1.000
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Pittsburgh 10 0 13 .286 20 6 4 3 1 0
Milwaukee 9 4 22 .310 11 6 6 6 1 1