Sports | MLB Sanchez' Hit Beats Braves Pirates rally to snap Atlanta's six-game win streak By Mitch Pritchard Posted May 9, 2008 11:08 PM CDT Copied Pittsburgh Pirates' Brian Bixler is tagged out by Atlanta Braves catcher Brian McCann while trying to score in the seventh inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh, Friday, May 9, 2008. (AP Photo/John Heller) Freddy Sanchez singled home Brian Bixler with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, giving the Pittsburgh Pirates a 3-2 win over the Atlanta Braves tonight. Sanchez went 2-for-4 with three RBIs and is 9-for-17 in four games since being moved to the top of the Pirates' lineup. John Grabow (2-1) struck out one in a scoreless ninth to earn the win. Brian McCann went 3-for-3 and Jeff Francoeur drove in two runs for Atlanta, which had won six straight. Sanchez hit a two-out, two-run double off Tom Glavine in the seventh to put Pittsburgh in front 2-1. Francoeur tied it with a two-out RBI single in the eighth. Atlanta’s Chipper Jones, the major league's leading hitter with a .413 average, went 0-for-2. Read These Next Sienna proves herself to be a very, very good dog. Three hikers jumped into a waterfall and never resurfaced. Her blood isn't compatible with anyone else's. Rubio says the fate of Iran's conversion facility is what matters. Report an error