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.
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Strikes and showers: Rockies manager Walt Weiss, after Nick Hundley took a called third strike in the fourth inning, and left fielder Ryan Raburn in the sixth earned ejections because of their strike-zone protests.