PITTSBURGH — Welcome back, Josh Johnson.

Johnson shook off a five-game winless streak to again be the effective pitcher he was earlier in the season, withstanding two solo home runs over eight innings to lead the Florida Marlins past the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 Wednesday night.

Dan Uggla hit his 28th homer and Cody Ross and Ronny Paulino each doubled and scored to support Johnson (11-5), who hadn't won since July 17. Johnson was coming off his worst start in three years, giving up six runs and 10 hits in 3X\c innings during a 7-2 loss to Cincinnati Friday.

Ryan Doumit homered off Johnson in the second, a 445-foot drove that was only his second since June 29, and Andrew McCutchen hit his 11th with two out in the eighth, but the Pirates still dropped their ninth in 10 games. With a 40-80 record, they are two losses away from a record-extending 18th consecutive losing season.

Johnson's ERA climbed from 1.61 to 2.27 during his winless streak, but the Pirates mostly saw the pitcher that the Marlins felt just a month ago might win the Cy Young Award. He struck out six, walked none and gave up seven hits.

Johnson's best work Wednesday might have been in the fourth, when the Pirates couldn't score even after right fielder Mike Stanton dropped the easiest of fly balls.

Garrett Jones' soft fly ball fell into Stanton's glove but somehow dropped out, putting Jones on second with no outs — exactly why every Little League coach tells his players to run out every ball. Jones advanced to third on a grounder, but Johnson ended the threat by getting Delwyn Young to ground out.

Florida took a 2-1 lead in the fifth as Ross doubled and scored on Chad Tracy's single off Ross Ohlendorf (1-10), who again got little support. Florida added a run in the eighth on Paulino's leadoff double, Johnson's sacrifice bunt and Hanley Ramirez's sacrifice fly.

Ohlendorf, who gets a major league-low average of 2.1 runs of support per game, permitted only four hits over eight innings, but all four led to runs.

The right-hander hasn't received more than three runs of support while on the mound in any of the 20 games he's pitched, and he's won only once despite having a 2.34 ERA over his last 10 starts. No wonder manager John Russell said, "One of these days, we'll score him some runs."

"I'm trying to take the positives out of things," Ohlendorf said. "I feel like I'm pitching well, so I'm just trying to go out and get a win that night. I wish my record was better at this point, but I've got to worry about going forward and getting wins the rest of the year."

Notes: The Pirates sent RHP Chris Jakubauskas outright to Triple-A Indianapolis after reinstating him from the 60-day disabled list and removing him from their 40-man roster. Jakubauskas sustained a concussion when he was hit in the head by a line drive off the bat of Lance Berkman April 24 in Houston. It was the only inning he pitched in the majors this season.