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PHOENIX (AP) – Geoff Jenkins, Prince Fielder and Corey Hart homered to power Milwaukee to a 10-5 victory over Arizona on Sunday, snapping the Brewers’ five-game losing skid and the Diamondbacks’ five-game winning streak.

Fielder hit his 17th home run, leading off Milwaukee’s three-run fourth, to tie the club record for most homers by a rookie. Greg Vaughn hit 17 for the Brewers in 1990. Fielder went 3-for-5 and scored two runs.

Luis Gonzalez doubled in a run for Arizona in the sixth for his 2,300th career hit, earning a standing ovation from the crowd. It was his 523rd double, tying him with Willie Mays for 32nd on the majors’ career list.

The Brewers had 16 hits, tying their season high, to salvage the third game of the series.

Dave Bush (6-7), who beat Arizona in his first outing of the season on April 7, allowed five runs, four earned, and nine hits in 6 1-3 innings. He left after giving up three runs in the seventh.

Jeff DaVanon was 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI, and scored twice for the Diamondbacks. Chad Tracy went 2-for-4 with three RBIs.

Milwaukee went up 2-0 in the first. Jeff Cirillo singled and Jenkins hit Claudio Vargas’ 2-2 pitch into the right-field seats for his ninth home run of the season. Bush added a run-scoring double in the second.

Consecutive two-out singles by DaVanon, Orlando Hudson and Tracy cut the lead to 3-1 in the third, but Milwaukee responded with three in the fourth.

Fielder hit the first pitch 420 feet to straightaway center for a homer. Bill Hall doubled and scored on Mike Rivera’s single. Rickie Weeks’ RBI single later in the inning made it 6-1 and ended Vargas’ day.

Vargas (7-6) gave up six runs and six hits in 3 2-3 innings, striking out two and walking none.

Tracy’s fielding error at third cleared the way for two unearned runs for Milwaukee in the fifth.

Carlos Lee’s RBI single off Edgar Gonzalez in the sixth made it 9-1 and gave every Brewers starter at least one hit.

Arizona cut the lead to 9-5 in the seventh on an RBI single by DaVanon and a two-run double by Tracy. Brian Shouse relieved Bush with Tracy on second and got Tony Clark to ground out. He then struck out Gonzalez to get out of the inning.

Hart led off the eighth with a pinch-hit drive off Luis Vizcaino for his first homer of the season.

Notes: Brewers CF Brady Clark robbed Orlando Hudson of an extra-base hit with a spectacular diving grab on the warning track in right-center to end the fifth inning. … Arizona 1B Conor Jackson left the game with a left shoulder strain after stretching to tag Fielder for a double play to end Milwaukee’s sixth inning. … Arizona SS Stephen Drew is 0-for-7 in his first two big league games.

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