After Miami, the Phillies' next stop was PNC Park to play the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first game, on the Fourth of July in "picture-postcard holiday weather", was an 8–2 loss for the Phillies and their 11th in 14 games; the team never recovered from Roberto Hernandez' allowing four runs in the first inning. They lost 3–2 the next night, with the Pirates again scoring in the first inning to lead the entire game despite a late Phillies comeback attempt. The Phillies were swept the next day, losing 6–2 behind A. J. Burnett to Jeff Locke (whom Burnett mentored the previous season) and Russell Martin (Burnett's former catcher). Locke allowed one earned run in eight innings, and Martin drove in two runs. The Phillies began a four-game series against the Milwaukee Brewers, who had the best record in the NL, with the third-worst record in the league. The Phillies won the first game 3–2, with a first-inning home run by Chase Utley and good pitching from Cole Hamels, Ken Giles and Jonathan Papelbon. The next night they overcame a 5–1 first-inning deficit to beat the Brewers 9–7, thanks to three RBIs apiece from Utley and Domonic Brown. Hernandez had his best start of the season in the series' third game, allowing one run in eight innings on 84 pitches (unusual, since his pitch count was among the highest in the major leagues). The Phillies swept the Brewers the next afternoon; hitless in the first six innings, they scored seven runs in the eighth inning and two more in the ninth to win 9–1. David Buchanan, allowing one solo home run in seven innings, was the winning pitcher. It was the first Phillies sweep of a four-game series since 2011, when they defeated the Cincinnati Reds in late August and early September. After the game the team called up former all-star outfielder Grady Sizemore, whom they had signed to a minor-league contract in June, as an extra bat in their final series before the All-Star break.