MILWAUKEE — Rookie catcher Jonathan Lucroy hit his first major league home run to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to an 8-3 win over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night.
Dave Bush (3-5), whose last turn in the rotation was skipped, pitched six innings to help Milwaukee win a season-high fifth straight. He gave up three runs on seven hits. Carlos Villanueva, Kameron Loe and Trevor Hoffman each pitched a scoreless inning in relief.
Ryan Rowland-Smith (1-7) gave up five runs on five hits in 5 1/3 innings.
Rowland-Smith retired nine of the first 10 batters, but Corey Hart led off the fourth with a single and Ryan Braun singled before Lucroy’s three-run shot. Carlos Gomez followed with a solo homer.
Alcides Escobar’s sacrifice fly in the sixth inning and Prince Fielder RBI double in the seventh upped the Brewers lead to 6-3. Gomez singled and Escobar hit another sacrifice to add two more runs in the eighth.
Milton Bradley hit a sacrifice fly in the second, and Franklin Gutierrez added one in the third, along with Mike Sweeney’s RBI single for a 3-0 lead.
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