Gregory Polanco hit his first home run of the season and Vance Worley got through 5 2-3 shaky innings for his second straight win as the Pittsburgh Pirates held off the Chicago Cubs 4-3 on Wednesday night.
Polanco's leadoff home run in the bottom of the fifth inning off Jason Hammel increased the Pirates' lead to 4-1. It came after Polanco made a fine running catch of a fly ball hit by rookie star Kris Bryant with the bases loaded to end the top of the inning.
Polanco also doubled as he finished with two hits.
Worley (2-1) allowed an unearned run on six hits and five walks. He also struck five in a 106-pitch outing. Tony Watson got the final six outs for his first save of the season and fifth of his five-year career.
Hammel (1-1) gave up four runs — three earned — and six hits in five innings with five walks and no strikeouts.
Anthony Rizzo had two of the Cubs' 10 hits.
The Cubs scored twice in the eight to cut the deficit to 4-3 as Miguel Montero singled in a run against Jared Hughes and Chris Coghlan drove in the other with a fielder's choice grounder.
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Francisco Cervelli hit an RBI double and Jung Ho Kang followed with a sacrifice fly in the second inning to open the scoring for the Pirates and Pedro Alvarez made it 3-0 with a sacrifice fly in the third.
Bryant doubled in the fourth inning and scored the Cubs' first run on Starlin Castro's grounder.
