The Boston Red Sox still aren’t hitting. The way the Pittsburgh Pirates kicked the baseball around on Sunday, it didn’t matter.

Andrew Miller picked up his first win with Boston, scattering five hits over six innings as the Red Sox snapped a four-game losing streak with a 4-2 win over the sloppy Pirates.

Boston loses 6-4 at Pittsburgh despite hitting three homers and also drops out of first place, a half-game behind New York.

David Ortiz walked to the plate representing the go-ahead run in the eighth inning Friday night, and the thousands of Boston Red Sox fans who crammed PNC Park waited for Big Papi to send the ball over the right-field wall, into the Allegheny River.

Mother Nature and Pittsburgh reliever Jose Veras had other ideas.

San Diego takes advantage of a wild John Lackey in a game stopped in the eighth.

Former Boston prospect Anthony Rizzo’s bases-loaded groundout helps San Diego end a skid.

BOSTON — Facing his former team was just another game for Adrian Gonzalez. His current team’s 10-run inning was something special.

Gonzalez drove in three runs Monday night with a single and double in the big seventh inning and the hot-hitting Boston Red Sox rolled to a 14-5 victory over the struggling San Diego Padres.

“I had fun with it. I have fun out there every day,” said Gonzalez, who leads the majors with 67 RBI and a .353 batting average. “It was good to see them before the game and catch up with them, but once the game started it was all about playing the game.”

The Red Sox have been playing better than any other team the past 2½ weeks. They are 14-2 since June 3. They scored at least 10 runs for the fifth time in nine games and lead the majors with a .277 batting average.