Gerrit Cole got touched up for 10 hits, David Freese and Clint Hurdle got ejected and the Pirates fell to the Braves, 5-2, in a frustrating game Monday night.
Ender Inciarte went 5-for-5 to lead the Atlanta attack, and the Braves got 13 hits in total.
With a run already in, Brandon Phillips cracked a solo homer off Cole to put the Braves up, 2-1, in the third.
Cole ran into more trouble in the fifth, an inning he would not finish. Two hits opened the inning and an error followed for a third Braves run.