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DENVER (AP) -- Francisco Cordova pitched eight strong innings and
drove in the go-ahead run with his first hit of the season as the
Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Colorado Rockies 2-1 on Friday night.
Mike Benjamin, hitting .412 over his last 11 games, added two
hits to help the Pirates end a five-game losing streak. Pittsburgh
has won five straight in Denver.
The three runs matched the second lowest combined score in six
years at Coors Field. The Rockies were averaging 9.7 runs per game
at home and had scored at least 10 runs in 11 of their previous 13
games at Coors.
Cordova (2-4), who won for the first time in seven starts, gave
up only four hits, including a solo homer to opposing pitcher
Masato Yoshii (1-6).
The right-hander also got his first hit in 19 at-bats this
season, a grounder down the first-base line to score Benjamin in
the seventh.
Mike Williams pitched the ninth for his seventh save. Williams
got Jeffrey Hammonds to ground out with runners on first and third
to end the game.
Yoshii deserved a better fate as he dropped his fifth straight
decision, matching the longest losing streak of his career. He gave
up two runs and eight hits in eight innings.
Neither team managed more than one hit in an inning until the
Pirates broke through in the sixth when Warren Morris led off with
a single and scored on a two-out double by John Vander Wal.
Yoshii tied the game in the sixth when he hit a 386-foot homer
to left. He sprinted to second base before slowing to a trot after
second base umpire Gary Cederstrom told him it was a home run.
Game
notes
Pittsburgh C Jason Kendall played against his father, Fred,
for the second time in his major league career. Fred Kendall is
Colorado's catching coach. ... Kendall extended his hitting streak
to 11 games with a first-inning double. ... The Pirates did not
arrive in Denver until 4 a.m. after playing in Phoenix on Thursday
night. ... Rockies 1B Todd Helton ended an 0-for-13 spell with a
single in the seventh. His average has dropped from .418 to .387.
... Yoshii's homer was the 13th by a Colorado pitcher in the team's
eight-season history.
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