PITTSBURGH -- The Pirates were made quick work of all night by Arizona starter Wade Miley. They were just waiting for the ninth.A three-run rally was capped by an Ike Davis broken-bat RBI single for a 3-2 Pirates win. It was the Bucs' Major League-leading eighth walk-off victory this season and they're three games above .500 (43-40) for the first time since they were 6-3 on April 10. 
The ninth started with back-to-back singles from Neil Walker and pinch-hitter Gregory Polanco, which chased Miley after he gave up just two hits and struck out 10 in his first eight frames. With the two men aboard, Starling Marte drove a ball to the center-field wall off of reliever Addison Reed.Marte's blast missed being a game-winning homer by about five feet, but it scored Walker and Polanco while a throwing error allowed Marte to advance to third. Reed intentionally walked Andrew McCutchen to get to Davis, who was also a pinch-hitter. He proceeded to bloop a ball down the right-field line to end the game. Before the dramatics, Jeff Locke tied a career high by going eight frames.Locke gave up three straight singles to Paul Goldschmidt, Miguel Montero and Aaron Hill to put the D-Backs on the board with two runs in the fifth. Locke pitched around a total of eight hits -- half of which he gave up in the first two innings. Locke has not allowed more than three earned runs since being called up from Triple-A Indianapolis in early June.Stephen Pianovich / MLB.com
The ninth started with back-to-back singles from Neil Walker and pinch-hitter Gregory Polanco, which chased Miley after he gave up just two hits and struck out 10 in his first eight frames. With the two men aboard, Starling Marte drove a ball to the center-field wall off of reliever Addison Reed.Marte's blast missed being a game-winning homer by about five feet, but it scored Walker and Polanco while a throwing error allowed Marte to advance to third. Reed intentionally walked Andrew McCutchen to get to Davis, who was also a pinch-hitter. He proceeded to bloop a ball down the right-field line to end the game. Before the dramatics, Jeff Locke tied a career high by going eight frames.Locke gave up three straight singles to Paul Goldschmidt, Miguel Montero and Aaron Hill to put the D-Backs on the board with two runs in the fifth. Locke pitched around a total of eight hits -- half of which he gave up in the first two innings. Locke has not allowed more than three earned runs since being called up from Triple-A Indianapolis in early June.Stephen Pianovich / MLB.com
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