ATLANTA — The Atlanta Braves still have hopes of making it back to the playoffs, but the schedule doesn't look very favorable the rest of the way.

Twenty-two of the last 36 games are at home.

Freddy Sanchez hit a tiebreaking homer in the seventh inning to hand Atlanta another loss at Turner Field, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates past the Braves 5-4 Wednesday night.

Jason Bay also homered for the Pirates, who won two of three in Atlanta after coming into the series with baseball's worst record on the road. They won only their third series away from PNC Park, having lost 17 and split another.

The Pirates won two straight at Turner Field for the first time since Aug. 12-13, 1997, which was also was their last series win in Atlanta.

"I didn't know about that," said Pittsburgh starter Ian Snell. "I was still in high school then."

Of course, this is hardly the same Braves team that came into the season with a record 14 straight division titles and hasn't had a losing record at home since 1990 — the year before the streak began. They dropped to 26-33 at Turner Field, the majors' second-worst home record.

Atlanta failed to make up ground on wild-card leader Cincinnati, remaining 6Z\x back with all those home games remaining.

"You've got to look at it as a negative right now, just by the numbers," said Adam LaRoche, who homered for the Braves. "We're better on the road for some reason. Why that is, no one knows."

Suburban Atlanta native Matt Capps (4-1) struck out Matt Diaz with the bases loaded to end the sixth and wound up with the win when Sanchez homered off Chad Paronto (1-1) with two outs in the seventh, snapping a 4-all tie.

Mike Gonzalez struck out the side in the ninth for his 23rd save in as many chances.

Atlanta's Chipper Jones hit the 350th homer of his career to tie Chili Davis for the third-most by a switch-hitter in baseball history. Only Mickey Mantle (536) and Eddie Murray (504) have more.

"Pretty cool," Jones said. "When I started my career, I wanted to be up there with Mickey Mantle and Eddie Murray. Those were my two idols, two guys that I tried to model myself after. I've still got a long way to go to catch up to them, but at least I can say for a while I was third."

Bay led off the second with his 28th homer, and the Pirates made it 2-0 in the fourth on Bay's run-scoring double. That began a stretch of four straight innings in which Pittsburgh scored.