Jeff Locke came awfully came close to pitching a Maddux and facing the minimum, instead settling for a 105-pitch, complete-game, three-hit shutout of Miami in a 10-0 Pirates victory on Monday night.
Locke set down 19 in a row, between Cole Gillespie's third-inning single and Jeff Mathis' pinch-hit single with two-outs in the ninth, which came on Locke's 100th pitch and prevented Locke from facing the minimum 27 batters.
Locke struck out just one (which, of course, is part of the whole idea), but got 13 groundouts and did not issue a walk.
Meanwhile, the Pirates' offense played like it was Bad Jeff Locke out there.