MILWAUKEE -- Sometimes in baseball, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

If you were a Brewers fan, the seventh inning on Saturday at American Family Field was arguably the ugliest inning of this entire season.

If you were a Pirates fan, put it in the Louvre.

“It was a good hour,” Pirates manager Derek Shelton said.

“One of those innings,” Brewers left fielder Christian Yelich said. “One of those days.”

Whatever your view, the Pirates’ four-run rally followed by the Brewers’ prime opportunity squandered added up to a long, eventful seventh and a 4-3 Pittsburgh win.

The Brewers cruised into the seventh inning with a 3-0 lead and Brandon Woodruff working on a one-hitter. It was more of the same for Woodruff, who’d pitched six scoreless innings against the Pirates at PNC Park six days earlier.

Brewers win probability: 90.2 percent

Yoshi Tsutsugo got the Pirates started with a long single off the right field wall before Kevin Newman grounded a single against the shift and Oneil Cruz blooped an RBI double -- the exit velocity was 68.9 mph, according to Statcast -- to make it a 3-1 game.

Three pitches, three hits.

Just like that, Woodruff’s day was done.

“It happened so fast,” Woodruff said. “The Cruz one was the icing on the cake when it fell in there. The best way to sum it up is, ‘That’s baseball.’ You go through six innings with one hit and then you give up three hits on three pitches.”

Brewers win probability: 59.5 percent

Enter Brad Boxberger, the Brewers’ bullpen escape artist all season. He got pinch-hitter Bryan Reynolds looking at a disputed called strike 3 that led to an argument and Shelton’s ejection. When the game resumed, Boxberger induced a popup to shallow left field from pinch-hitter Josh VanMeter that should have put the Brewers back in control.

Instead, the Pirates moved into the driver’s seat. After squeezing the catch, Yelich made an awkward throw to the middle of the infield, where Boxberger tried to catch it on a short hop. When the baseball deflected off his glove, Newman raced home to make it 3-2 and Cruz took third.

“I was hoping to one-, two-, three-hop Omar,” Yelich said. “I knew the guy wasn’t running, but you don’t just want to sit out there and pump fake it. I was just trying to get it in. I don’t really know what happened after that.”

“I think I’m kind of the cutoff guy there,” Boxberger said, “but I misplayed the hop and it got by me.”

“There doesn’t need to be a cutoff man there,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said.

Brewers win probability: 72.2 percent

Miscue aside, Boxberger still had an opportunity to escape the inning. But he missed the zone with his first two pitches to Ben Gamel before coming back with a four-seam fastball to which Gamel got the barrel of the bat. His go-ahead, two-run home run sailed a Statcast-projected 397 feet for a Pirates lead.

“I took a deep breath there to try and clear it and start making pitches after [the error], but the command just hasn’t been there the last couple of outings,” Boxberger said. “I have to get back to commanding the first pitch for a strike and being more efficient in these innings.”

For Gamel, it reclaimed a run he’d allowed in the last half-inning, when he committed an error in left field.

“He had the ball go between his legs, but he came back and gave us a nice lift,” Shelton said. “It was a nice little redemption.”

Pirates win probability: 65.8 percent

The Brewers still had nine outs on offense to reclaim the lead, and it looked like they were in business against Duane Underwood Jr. when Willy Adames led off the bottom of the seventh with a hustle double (57.9 mph exit velocity) that skied over third base and kicked off the glove of Ke’Bryan Hayes. When Rowdy Tellez followed with a single, the Brewers had the tying runner 90 feet from home with nobody out.

So prime was this opportunity, Statcast’s win probability actually flipped back Milwaukee’s way.

Brewers win probability: 61.3 percent

Underwood had a different outcome in mind. He struck out Andrew McCutchen, then got a huge out when Kolten Wong hit a sharp grounder to Tsutsugo at first base, who threw home to cut down Adames.

When Luis Urías struck out, the threat was over.

“I was locked in from pitch one,” Underwood said. “I made my pitches and they took some swings and got some weak contact. My job is to come back, keep filling up the zone, keep getting outs and getting some swings and misses.”

“I was fighting [Underwood] and the shadow,” McCutchen said. “It was very, very, very odd of me to have to swing at a pitch like I did that last at-bat. I don’t swing at stuff like that. … He made the pitches he needed to make and got the job done, so hat’s off to him. But that was a tough one. That was my mission: Get the run in. I’m trying to do that. Wong is trying to do that. We all are.”

Said Yelich: “Scoring runs, executing, we just haven’t done a great job consistently. Nobody’s trying to not do it. It’s just one of those things [where] we have to get it done. We’re a team and an offense that has to make sure we do those little things. When we don’t do them, it’s tough for us to win.”

Pirates win probability: 75.3 percent

Pittsburgh relievers Wil Crowe and David Bednar combined for six up, six down to lock down the Pirates’ first win at Milwaukee in five tries this season and just the sixth in 27 games dating back to 2019.

“This is a tough place,” Shelton said. “This is a good team. It’s the team that’s leading our division and one of the better teams in the National League. They just have to keep going.

“And that’s something we’ve talked about with our club -- regardless of the score, regardless of the situation. Even going back to [Friday] night’s game, we gave ourselves a chance to win because they continued to grind. That’s the thing I probably love the most about this group is they will try to persevere.”