MILWAUKEE -- The Pittsburgh Pirates had timely hitting, but a key double play helped even more.Andrew McCutchen, Jody Mercer and Josh Bell each drove in two runs and the Pirates preserved their faint playoff hopes with a 6-3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday night.The Pirates won their fifth straight at Miller Park, and fifth of six overall to improve to .500 (75-75) for the first time since they were 69-69 on Sept. 8. Pittsburgh began the day five games behind San Francisco for the second NL wild card spot and St. Louis Cardinals and Miami Marlins in between the Pirates and Giants.McCutchens two-run double in the first staked rookie left-hander Steven Brault to an early lead. Then, Bells two-run single in the top of fifth chased starter Matt Garza (5-8).Staked to a 5-2 lead in the bottom of the fifth, Brault walked Jonathan Villar who stole second and moved to third on Orlando Arcias single to center. Pirates manager Clint Hurdle made a move to his bullpen and brought in Jared Hughes (1-1) to face Chris Carter.It is first and third with nobody out in the fifth, Hurdle said. Where we are in the season right now, I felt (Brault) gave us (enough.) It is a sticky situation.Carter lined Hughes first pitch at third baseman Jung Ho Kang, who fielded the ball cleanly and turned it into a double play that deflated the rally. Hughes struck out Domingo Santana to end the threat.We ended up scoring a run, but thats two outs right there on one pitch, Carter said. He ended up (retiring) the next guy. That kind of changed the momentum right there.Brewers manager Craig Counsell was even more emphatic.That was a big play, he said. We had guys on first and second and got to their bullpen. Chris hit a ball hard, and he made a nice play. That certainly was the play of the game, for sure.The Brewers went quietly the rest of the way against the Pirates bullpen.You want guys who can come in and have some experience and take care of it from there, Hurdle said.And thats exactly what happened.Wade LeBlanc pitched the sixth which ended on another double play. Juan Nicasio set the side down in order in the seventh. Antonio Bastardo struck out two in the eighth and Tony Watson tossed a perfect ninth for his 14th save in 17 chances.Brault was making his seventh career start and had already lost twice to the Brewers. He allowed Santanas run-scoring double in the third and Martin Maldonados home run in the fourth. Brault scattered five hits, struck out four, walked two and was three outs from his first major-league win.Even though I couldnt go the five and get the win, I kept my team in it, Brault said. We got the win. We are making a playoff push, that is all that really matters right now.Mercer produced run-scoring singles in the fourth and sixth.Adam Frazier went 3 for 4, scored twice and extended his streak of reaching base safely to 10 straight games for the Pirates.Garza allowed five runs and eight hits over four innings. He walked two and struck out two while slipping to 1/3 in four starts against the Pirates this seasonThe Brewers had won 11 of 17 since the Pirates four-game sweep in Milwaukee at the end of August, with home and away series victories over the NL Central Champion Chicago Cubs.NICASIO SETS A FRANCHISE RECORDRHP Juan Nicasio has recorded at least one strikeout in 30 straight appearances, a single-season club record for a Pirates relief pitcher. According to Elias, its the longest such streak in the majors this season and ties Cody Allens record with Cleveland in 2015.FEELING RIGHT AT HOMEMcCutchens two-run double in the first extended his hitting streak to eight games and gave him 48 RBI in 62 career games at Miller Park.GARZA RUNSOpponents have roughed up Garza for 26 runs (16 earned) in his last seven starts. He is 1-4 with a 4.00 ERA over that stretch.NEW BREWERS DADSLF Ryan Braun and C Manny Pina were out of the lineup in order to be with their wives and the newest member of his respective family. Brauns wife, Larisa, gave birth to a son, Greyson Joseph. Pinas wife, Leny, gave birth to a daughter, Jimena. However, Pina pinch hit in the ninth and flied out to end the game. Both players were expected back before the weekend.TRAINERS ROOMPirates: C Chris Stewart underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left knee and is expected to be out six-to-eight weeks. 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NEW YORK -- Ryan Harrison, a 24-year-old American who has struggled to approach the expectations placed on him, played the match of his life on Wednesday at the US Open.Harrison stunned No. 5-seeded Milos Raonic 6-7 (4), 7-5, 7-5, 6-1 in the biggest upset of the tournament so far. A raucous capacity crowd ?of 8,200 at the tournaments new Grandstand stadium was thrilled with the result.Its so cool, Harrison said. The first two sets, when you have a crowd behind you like that, youre just playing on adrenaline. It was incredible.For the first time, the ATP World Tours No. 120-ranked player finds himself in the third round of a Grand Slam event. And he had to qualify his way into the event.According to ESPN Stats & Information research, Harrison is the first American qualifier in the Open era to defeat a top-five seed at the US Open.?It was only the second time in 28 attempts that Harrison has beaten a top-10 player.Its mental maturity, a little bit of stabilization with everything around me that is allowing me to play with a sense of calm and also with excitement, said Harrison, who turned pro nearly a decade ago and reached a top ranking of 43rd in 2012. My personality is a very fiery one. I like to be really intense when Im competing, flirt with that line of getting so intense that it [was] taking me away from what I was trying to accomplish.Until Monday, Harrison hadnt won any main-draw match at any major since the 2013 French Open. Raonic, a finalist this year at Wimbledon, had won 11 consecutive second-round matches in majors.After winning the first-set tiebreaker, the Canadian seemed to labor with injuries. There was a lengthy visit from the trainer to work on Raonics wrist and later massage his quad muscle.ddddddddddddI was my own worst enemy today, Raonic said. I tried the best I could to find my way out of it. My body didnt let me.While he was certainly helped by his opponents myriad problems, Harrison played cleanly after recovering from a double fault that ceded the opening set.Harrison wound up with 33 unforced errors, making merely one in the final set of the 3?-hour match. Raonics total was 62, including a whopping 21 in the third set alone.I didnt create this pressure for myself or this kind of stress on myself, Raonic acknowledged. He did that.In the third round, Harrison will face 44th-ranked Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus, the 2006 Australian Open runner-up. Baghdatis eliminated 32nd-seeded Benoit Paire of France 6-2, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 on Wednesday.Not really a whole lot of time for reflection in this sport, because things change so quickly, Harrison said. You play a bad match on Friday, all of a sudden todays win feels a long ways away.Last week, Harrison and his younger sibling Christian, 22, became the first pair of brothers to both qualify for the US Open.How cool, the older Harrison said, is it to have him with me at the Open?While Christian lost in the first round on Tuesday, Ryan took pleasure in being joined in th