PITTSBURGH -- Pirates starter Joe Musgrove was one pitch away from getting out of the fourth inning with the game still tied Saturday night, but Chris Taylor would not go down without a fight.

Taylor grinded through a 10-pitch at-bat against Musgrove, fouling off five straight pitches before smacking a two-out single to left field. Taylor’s tough at-bat set up pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu’s RBI double and made Musgrove work before the Dodgers pulled ahead in the fifth inning and went on to beat the Bucs, 7-2, at PNC Park.

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“If you watch these guys play, one of the best teams in baseball, they’re capable of beating you in a number of different ways,” Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. “They’ve got a very talented team with depth, and offensively, they have a lot of different weapons. They can be pitched to. We didn’t make enough pitches tonight and sequences to keep ‘em down.”

With the score tied, 2-2, Musgrove recorded two quick outs to begin the fourth inning, then got ahead of Taylor with a first-pitch strike. Taylor fouled off a fastball, took two balls down and away then fouled off just about every pitch in Musgrove’s arsenal -- two fastballs, a changeup, a curveball and a slider.

“Seeing him not able to put him away earlier, I said to [pitching coach Ray Searage], ‘This could be problematic,’” Hurdle said. “Then the at-bat strings on. He gave it everything he had.”

Musgrove’s 10th pitch was a 93.4-mph fastball at the bottom of the zone, and Taylor punched it to left field to keep the inning alive.

“That was a little bit tiring,” Musgrove said. “I thought I was making some good pitches. He was just fouling them off, fouling them off. At that point in a 10-pitch at-bat, you’ve kind of shown him everything you have. Trying to force contact, trying to make him swing, and he ended up coming up on the winning side of it.”

That brought up Ryu, the Dodgers’ .059-hitting starting pitcher who had his scoreless innings streak snapped at 32 when the Pirates put up two runs in the second. Musgrove ran up a full count against Ryu, including a borderline 2-1 pitch that was called a ball, then left a fastball up in the zone. Ryu crushed a 103 mph line drive high off the wall in center field, according to Statcast, bringing home Taylor and giving the Dodgers a 3-2 lead.

“You’ve got to attack him. I don’t take pitchers lightly by any means,” Musgrove said. “I don’t think there was a mental break. Just not executing.”

What could have been a 1-2-3 inning for Musgrove wound up requiring him to throw 30 pitches. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts thought that was one of the turning points of the night.

“For us to get deep in their bullpen, to not allow Musgrove to go another inning, was big,” Roberts said. “You look back at that inning -- that game -- that C.T. at-bat was pivotal."

The Pirates had plenty of chances even after snapping Ryu’s scoreless streak, but they finished 2-for-14 with runners in scoring position against the lefty. They had a golden opportunity to pull back ahead in the fourth, putting runners on second and third with nobody out. But Cole Tucker, Musgrove and Adam Frazier all lined out to end the inning.

“We weren’t able to add on. We did have some hard outs as well,” Hurdle said. “We pushed a guy that hadn’t been pushed, and he showed his ability to pitch as well and pitch out of the stretch.”

Musgrove left some early count pitches over the plate in the fifth inning, and the heart of a Dodgers lineup loaded with lefties did not miss them.

Max Muncy knocked a first-pitch changeup to right field. Corey Seager smacked a 1-0 curveball to center for an RBI double. Then Cody Bellinger, looking every bit like the National League Most Valuable Player frontrunner, mashed a first-pitch fastball to right for the Dodgers’ third straight double.

Russell Martin eventually drove in Bellinger on a sacrifice fly, and Musgrove did not return after finishing the fifth. Musgrove kept the ball in the park and did not walk anybody, but he gave up six runs on 10 hits with only one strikeout.

“Ultimately, my stuff was just up in the zone,” Musgrove said. “Earlier in the game, you saw the kind of results I can get when I throw my stuff down in the zone -- a lot of weak contact and a lot of stuff coming back to me, staying in the infield. As the game went on, my stuff started to elevate in the zone.”

Cervelli injured

Pirates catcher Francisco Cervelli exited Saturday’s game due to concussion-like symptoms after taking a broken-bat backswing off his facemask in the fourth inning.

Joc Pederson pulled a 1-1 pitch from Musgrove foul down the right-field line, and his bat broke on his backswing. The barrel connected directly with the front of Cervelli’s mask, knocking the catcher back. Cervelli quickly stood up and remained in the game after a brief meeting with Hurdle and head athletic trainer Bryan Housand, smiling and joking with home-plate umpire Nic Lentz before play resumed.

Cervelli remained behind the plate as Musgrove retired Pederson, and he stepped up to the plate to hit in the bottom of the inning. But Cervelli did not take his at-bat, instead walking back to the dugout and leaving the game. He was replaced by catcher Elias Diaz.

Cervelli, 33, has a history of concussions. He was placed on the disabled list twice each of the last two years and once in 2011 due to concussion symptoms.

“There’s a part of him that doesn’t ever want to come out again, and there’s a part of him that gets to a point where, you know what, I’m not going to do myself any good by continuing either,” Hurdle said. “He’s probably got enough experience through it all right now to know when it’s time to back away.”

If Cervelli is placed on the injured list, he will be the 22nd Pirates player to serve a stint on the IL this season.