PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh Pirates had only six hits, watched their starter last only three innings and committed two errors. But they were the much better team at PNC Park on Thursday night.

The Pirates tied a team record with four sacrifice flies and took advantage of a record-tying five Florida Marlins errors for a 7-2 victory in front of an announced crowd of 9,582.

"We just kicked it around and you can't do that," Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "You keep putting people on base and something bad is going to happen."

Ronny Paulino had three RBIs and Shawn Chacon pitched five shutout innings out of the bullpen for the Pirates, who earned a split of the four-game series.

"Walks and sac flies and all that kind of stuff — stuff that we characteristically do a lot of — it's nice to do that and get a win," said the Pirates' Jason Bay, who scored twice after reaching on Miguel Cabrera errors. "We've had chances in numerous games before and not (scored enough). Offensively, we didn't have a breakout game, but it's nice to put up seven runs some way."

The Pirates tied a club record set Sept. 9, 1988, against Philadelphia with four sacrifice flies. The Marlins tied a club record for errors.

"When a team makes errors, you need to take advantage and we did," Paulino said. "That's a good way to win a game."

Hanley Ramirez and Jeremy Hermida each had two hits for Florida, which had a two-game winning streak snapped and committed five errors in a game for the first time since July 25, 2000. It was the third time the Marlins committed five errors in a game.

Paulino, Chris Duffy, Jose Castillo and Bay had sacrifice flies for the Pirates.

"Situational at-bats, you have to do that," Pittsburgh manager Jim Tracy said. "That's something that early in the season we missed on some of those opportunities. You've got to capitalize on those situations."

Four of Florida's errors occurred in the first four innings — leading to three unearned runs for Pittsburgh.

The first came in the second inning off Florida starter Ricky Nolasco when Bay reached on Cabrera's first error and scored on Paulino's sacrifice fly.

That came after Florida scored a run in the first on a single, two walks and a hit batter.