MILWAUKEE — Prince Fielder flashed his speed early Saturday night but he saved what he does best for last.

Fielder scored Milwaukee's first run on a suicide squeeze in the second inning and then hit a towering home run to dead center in the eighth off left-hander Renyel Pinto to power the Brewers to a 4-3 victory over the Florida Marlins before a sellout audience of 44,169 at Miller Park.

It was Fielder's fourth home run of the season and the third on this homestand, all of them off left-handers. Fielder, the lone lefty swinger in Saturday's lineup, hit two off Phillies' Cole Hamels on Wednesday.

"You have to see the ball first before you can do anything," Fielder said of the home run off Pinto (1-1), who retired Fielder with a runner on second base in the eighth inning and the game scoreless Friday night. "Just put the bat on the ball. The other stuff, worrying about your hands and things like that, that's for batting practice."

While the home run made the difference, Fielder and pitcher Carlos Villanueva were more interested in talking about how they teamed on what was the first career suicide squeeze for either of them.

Villanueva had been warned by manager Ned Yost and pitching coach Mike Maddux that the squeeze was a possibility if Fielder reached third. With the bases loaded, the squeeze sign was given on the 1-0 pitch. Fielder did a double take because he never had been on that end of the play.

"I'm just happy he got it down," Fielder said of the perfectly executed bunt to the third-base side of the mound.

"I saw him coming out of the corner of my eye," Villanueva said of the hard-charging Fielder. "All I was thinking was get it down and get out of the way or Prince was going to run me and the catcher over."

It wasn't the only thing Villanueva did well. After allowing a leadoff home run to Hanley Ramirez, he held the Marlins to just one run and five hits before retiring with a 3-2 lead after six innings. But he lost a chance at his second victory of the season when Salomon Torres let the Marlins tie it in the eighth.

"He got credit in my book," Yost said after watching Villanueva strike out five and not issue a walk.

Closer Eric Gagne allowed a broken-bat single but struck out the side in the ninth to pick up his seventh save. After pitching a perfect seventh, Torres allowed singles to Dan Uggla and Jeremy Hermida to open the eighth. Torres did get Josh Willingham to ground to shortstop J.J. Hardy to start a double play, but Uggla scored on the twin killing.

The Brewers, in the throes of an offensive recession, didn't exactly pound the cover off the ball but did make something of their few opportunities against starter Mark Hendrickson.

Milwaukee evened it up on the squeeze play in the second in a rally that blossomed because of sloppy fielding.

Second baseman Uggla misplayed Fielder's routine ground ball to lead off the inning.

After Bill Hall's one-out single moved Fielder to second, Ramirez booted Hardy's double-play ball to load the bases.

The Brewers, who had not scored in 16 innings, finally got on the board when Villanueva put down his bunt.

"I didn't want Carlos swinging and hitting into a double play," Yost explained about the squeeze.

Milwaukee added two more in the third on Fielder's run-scoring single that scored Gabe Kapler, who led off with a double.

Fielder later scored on Hardy's sacrifice fly to center. After the Marlins tied it, the stage was set for Fielder to give the Brewers their sixth win of the season in nine one-run games.

"We're grinding now, but that's good," Yost said. "Nothing comes easy for us but we're hanging in there. That's a good sign."