Brice Turang and Christian Yelich homered and Jose Quintana allowed one run over six innings to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to their 10th consecutive victory, 7-1, over the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday in the opener of a three-game series.

The National League Central-leading Brewers improved to 74-44, best in the majors, and moved 6 1/2 games ahead of the Chicago Cubs, who were idle Monday.

Quintana (10-4) allowed three hits, striking out three and walking one. Grant Anderson followed with two scoreless inning and Shelby Miller tossed a perfect ninth.

Turang jump-started the Brewers with a leadoff homer in the first and Yelich ignited a four-run third inning with his 22nd homer.

Andrew Heaney (5-10) allowed six runs, five earned, on nine hits in four innings for the Pirates.

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