MILWAUKEE (Ticker) -- Marquis Grissom, Jeromy Burnitz and Geoff Jenkins homered, helping the Milwaukee Brewers coast to a 12-2 rout of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Milwaukee tied a season high with its fourth straight victory and has won five in a row at home. The Brewers are 38-37 in their final season at County Stadium and are trying to post their first winning home record since 1997, when they were 47-33.

In the second inning, Burnitz drove the first pitch from starter Jimmy Anderson over the right-center field fence to tie it at 1-1. Jose Hernandez walked, moved to second on a groundout and scored on a RBI double by Kevin Brown to put the Brewers ahead for good.

Milwaukee took control by scoring the next seven runs, capped by Grissom's two-run shot in the fifth off rookie Brian O'Connor that gave the Brewers a 9-1 cushion. Grissom was 4-for-4 with three runs scored, two RBI and a walk.

"I just want to play hard, day in and day out," Grissom said. "It's just confidence, that is all it is. I just want to go up there, like Little League, and see the ball and hit the ball. I'm just trying to build for next year."

Jenkins finished the rout in the seventh with a 435-blast over the right-center field fence for his team-leading 32nd homer. He has six home runs in the last eight games.

"You're just trying to see it and hit it," Jenkins said. "It seems like the home runs kind of come in spurts. It's just one of those things where you're not trying to think about it."

The offense was more than enough for rookie Paul Rigdon (4-4), who has alternated wins and losses in his last five starts. He yielded two runs and five hits with four walks while tying a career best with seven innings. It was the fourth time this season he has lasted seven frames.

Anderson was torched for five runs and eight hits in 2 1/3 innings. It was the second straight start in which the lefthander did not advance past the third.

The rollercoaster September continued for the Pirates, who began the month with eight wins but dropped the next nine games before sweeping a three-game set in Philadelphia prior to tonight's contest.

First baseman Kevin Young was ejected by umpire Eric Cooper after a questionable call in the fourth. Young apparently tagged Mark Loretta to complete a double play, but Cooper ruled he did not.

That seemed to set off Young, who got in Cooper's face, prompting the ejection. Young continued to argue, even pushing aside Pittsburgh manager Gene Lamont before teammates managed to force him away.

"I'm sure he takes a lot of pride in what he does as an umpire and I take a lot of pride as a baseball player," Young said. "When you get two people, passionate of what they do, sometimes you are going to have conflicts. That is just part of the game. I told him there were two calls he missed, that is when he kicked me out."

The trio of Grissom, Loretta and Jenkins combined for eight of Milwaukee's 14 hits, scoring six runs and driving in seven.

"The guys came out and banged the baseball tonight," Brewers manager Davey Lopes said. "When hitting gets going, it gets contagious. We want to finish the season on a good note and carry that into Miller Park."