PITTSBURGH -- Rockies righty German Marquez found happiness as a warm-blooded pitcher on a bone-chilling night.
Braving light snow and a 27-degree game-time wind chill on Monday night, Marquez held the Pirates hitless until the fifth and to two hits in his six innings as the Rockies defeated the Pirates, 6-2, at PNC Park -- their fifth victory in the last six games.
Marquez had help with the homer -- Trevor Story's fourth, for three runs in the fourth, and Charlie Blackmon's two-out solo shot in the eighth for his seventh of the year -- all on the road.