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Final Score: Houston 4 - Milwaukee 6

Milwaukee, WI (Sports Network) - Ryan Braun homered and drove in four runs, and the Milwaukee Brewers rallied with four unanswered runs to down the Houston Astros, 6-4, in the second installment of a three-game series at Miller Park.

Ray Durham doubled twice and scored three runs for the Brewers, who rebounded from having their eight-game win streak snapped Friday. Durham entered the game 0-for-6 with Milwaukee since being acquired in a trade with San Francisco last week. Corey Hart went 2-for-3 with a run scored, while Jason Kendall and Bill Hall each knocked in a run.

Eric Gagne (4-2) tossed a perfect eighth inning to win in relief of Dave Bush, who allowed four runs on nine hits in five troubled frames. Salomon Torres worked a scoreless ninth for his 20th save.

"The bullpen did a great job," said Brewers manager Ned Yost. "(Guillermo) Mota did a nice job of getting through the sixth and two outs in the seventh. Those are five big outs that kept the game right there and gave us a chance to score some runs and get back in the game."

Miguel Tejada stopped an 0-for-16 slump with a 4-for-4 performance for the Astros, losers in five of their last six games. Carlos Lee belted a two-run homer, while Lance Berkman and Hunter Pence each went 2-for-4 with a run batted in. Astros centerfielder Michael Bourn went 2-for-3 before leaving the game in the sixth inning with a sprained right ankle, suffered when he slid into second base to break up a double play.

Doug Brocail (4-5) allowed two runs in the eighth and dropped the decision behind Brandon Backe, who allowed two runs on four hits in 5 1/3 innings. Geoff Geary was tagged for two runs in 1 2/3 innings of relief.

Down 4-2 in the seventh, Milwaukee rallied to tie the game against Geary. Durham worked a one-out walk, and after Craig Counsell popped up, Braun hammered a 3-2 slider over the wall in straightaway center to force the deadlock.

"I was looking for a fastball," Braun said. "He left an off-speed pitch over the middle of the plate. I took advantage of it and hit it hard. I didn't know if it would make it over the fence or not, but fortunately it did."

The Brewers then forged ahead in the eighth against Brocail. Hart led off with a ground-rule double to left-center, and Hall flipped a soft single to right to plate the go-ahead run. A balk and a Rickie Weeks groundout moved Hall to third, and Hall came in with an insurance run when Kendall grounded out.

Torres worked around Mark Loretta's leadoff pinch-hit single in the ninth for the save.

Milwaukee took an early 2-0 lead, scoring in nearly identical ways in both the first and third. In both frames, Durham smacked a leadoff double, was moved to third by Counsell and scored on a Braun sacrifice fly.

The Astros, however, countered with three runs in the fourth, courtesy of a pair of long balls. Tejada led off with a single, and one out later Lee tied the game with a blast to left. One batter later, Pence crushed a Bush breaking ball deep into the seats in left for a 3-2 advantage.

"First home run was a slider on the second pitch," Bush said. "I was trying to get Carlos to get the ball on the ground. The one that Pence hit, I was trying to throw a curve ball for a strike."

Three straight two-out singles from Kaz Matsui, Tejada and Berkman pushed across another run for Houston in the fifth, but an Humberto Quintero double play stopped a first-and-third, one-out rally in the sixth.