Santana homer in 10th, 5 RBIs lift Indians over Pirates 6-3

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Carlos Santana hit a towering, three-run homer in the 10th inning and drove in five runs to lift the Cleveland Indians to a 6-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night.

With one out and the score tied at 3, Santana’s drive sailed high over the foul pole and landed at the top of the left field rotunda at PNC Park. The Pirates argued that the ball had curved foul, but the umpire’s call stood following a video review.

Cleveland won its fourth straight game and for the ninth time in 12 games. At 4-15, Pittsburgh has the worst record in the major leagues.

Cesar Hernandez began in the inning as the automatic runner at second base. One out later, Francisco Lindor walked and then Santana connected off Sam Howard (1-1) for his second home run of the season.

The Pirates had a chance to win it in the ninth when they put runners and first and second with no outs. But speedy Jarrod Dyson was picked off second base by catcher Roberto Perez and the inning eventually ended when Nick Wittgren (1-0) struck out Josh Bell with two on.

Brad Hand pitched a scoreless 10th for his sixth save in as many chances.

Bell made it 3-all in the sixth with a two-run double that chased Carlos Carrasco. Oliver Perez came on and avoided further trouble by striking out Colin Moran and Bryan Reynolds to end the inning.

Santana hit a two-run single and Franmil Reyes followed with a sacrifice fly to put Cleveland ahead 3-1 in the third.

The Pirates, who got three hits from Kevin Newman, were playing for just the third time in nine days.

They had a three-game series at St. Louis postponed last week because of the Cardinals’ COVID-19 outbreak. Pittsburgh then split two games at Cincinnati before the last two games of the scheduled series were called off because a Reds...

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