Major League Baseball
Cleveland 6, Pittsburgh 1
When: 7:05 PM ET, Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Where: PNC Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Temperature: 76°
Umpires: Home - Tripp Gibson III, 1B - Ben May, 2B - Dan Iassogna, 3B - Andy Fletcher
Attendance: 0

Carlos Santana hit a three-run homer for the second straight night, Domingo Santana added a three-run double and Aaron Civale pitched a complete game five-hitter Wednesday as the visiting Cleveland Indians topped the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-1.

Cleveland has won a season-best five straight games.

Carlos Santana's blast came with two outs in the sixth inning and busted up what had been a pitching duel. He won Tuesday's series opener with a three-run shot in the 10th.

Pittsburgh has lost 13 of its past 15.

Civale (3-2) struck out six and walked none.

Pittsburgh's Steven Brault, in his longest outing this season, pitched five scoreless innings, giving up two hits and a walk with three strikeouts. He was relieved by Dovydas Neverauskas (0-3), who gave up Carlos Santana's homer among two hits, a walk and two strikeouts in his one inning of work.

Through four innings, Civale and Brault staged a pitching duel.

Civale had given up one hit, a two-out single to Jacob Stallings in the third, with three strikeouts and no walks. Brault had allowed no hits with three strikeouts and worked with just two baserunners, on a walk and a fielding error.

In the fifth, Cleveland got its first hit, Franmil Reyes' leadoff single, and Jordan Luplow followed with a single. But Domingo Santana rocketed a comebacker that Brault gloved and threw to first for a double play.

Against Neverauskas in the sixth, Cesar Hernandez doubled with one out, Jose Ramirez walked and, after Francisco Lindor struck out, Carlos Santana blasted a shot to the top of the stands in right for a 3-0 lead. That gave him eight RBIs in the series.

In the eighth, Pirates reliever Tyler Bashlor walked the bases loaded around a couple of strikeouts, and Domingo Santana doubled down the line in left to clear the bases and make it 6-0.

In the ninth, Pittsburgh pinch-hitter Cole Tucker doubled leading off the inning, went to third on Kevin Newman's single and scored on Josh Bell's sacrifice fly to thwart Civale's shutout bid.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Cleveland   Pittsburgh
Aaron Civale Player Steven Brault
Win W/L No Decision
9.0 IP 5.0
6 Strikeouts 3
5 Hits 2
1.00 ERA 0.00
Hitting
Cleveland   Pittsburgh
Jordan Luplow Player Jacob Stallings
1 Hits 2
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
1 TB 2
.500 Avg 1.000
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Cleveland 5 1 10 .167 20 11 6 8 2 0
Pittsburgh 5 0 6 .167 5 6 1 0 0 1