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- Updated: May 31, 2016
MIAMI — The Pirates played 268 times between July 28, 2014, and Monday night without their starting pitcher throwing a complete game. Was Jeff Locke’s shutout in Pittsburgh’s 10-0 win worth the wait?
“All in all, that may have been the best game I’ve ever watched in a Pirate uniform,” manager Clint Hurdle said Tuesday.
A day after Locke’s gem against the Marlins, Hurdle was reflecting on the Pirates’ entire performance — 14 hits, 10 runs and outstanding defense — but mostly Locke himself.
Locke delivered his first shutout and the Bucs’ first complete game in nearly two years. The Pirates went without a “CG” last season, although A.J. Burnett threw nine scoreless frames in an 11-inning win over the Phillies in June.
“I like that pitchers still have that quest and that thirst to do it. They should,” Hurdle said. “It’s an accomplishment for the team. It’s an accomplishment for themselves.”
Hurdle gave Locke Monday’s lineup card, and Locke kept the ball after the final out. Where will it go? Back home to his biggest fans: his mother, Pam, and father, Alan, in New …
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