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Starling Marte walks off as Pirates win 6-4 in 12

The Pirates came back from a 4-0 deficit and Starling Marte hit a walk-off homer in the 12th as the Bucs beat the Reds 6-4 and reduced their magic number for home-field advantage in the Wild Card game to one.

The win sent the Bucs and Reds heading even further in opposite directions -- the Pirates now have 97 wins this season, while the Reds now haven't won since September 19 and are just a half-game better than the Phillies, who have the worst record in baseball.

The evening began inauspiciously. Francisco Liriano coughed up a two-run homer to Eugenio Suarez in the second.