"Bettis was tough, he really didn't give us a lot of mistakes," Joyce said of the need to jump on Oberg quickly. "As a hitter, you kind of make your money on the mistakes that the pitchers make. Fortunately enough, I was able to capitalize on a mistake made with some runners on base and that led to a big inning for us.
Joyce's swing made a winner of Pirates starter Jeff Locke, who went six scoreless innings, gave up five hits and struck out eight, although the Rockies loudly begged to differ with home-plate umpire Lance Barrett's calls on some of the five strikeouts looking.