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Friday, May 26 9:05pm ET
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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 notesPittsburgh 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. | ALSO SEE Baseball Scoreboard Pittsburgh Clubhouse Colorado Clubhouse RECAPS Baltimore 8 Oakland 3
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