PITTSBURGH — The Colorado Rockies have had problems in the last two weeks scoring runs and holding on to early leads.

They didn't have any of those problems Tuesday night.

Matt Holliday hit a two-run homer, Jamie Carroll drove in three runs and the Rockies beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 13-4 to stop an eight-game losing streak.

"Nice way for our offense to kind of break out of somewhat of a teamwide slump we have been in," Holliday said. "Hopefully we have turned the page on what was a bad (13) days and we can now move forward."

Yorvit Torrealba went 3-for-5 with two RBI and Choo Freeman scored twice and drove in two runs for the Rockies, who had scored a total of eight runs in their previous four games.

"You look up and down the order," said Clint Barmes, who had two hits and scored a run, "and everybody was doing their part as far as driving in the runs tonight."

Jeff Francis (7-8) won for only the second time since June 12. He struck out six in seven innings, allowing one earned run and eight hits with one intentional walk.

The Rockies pushed across three runs in the second inning against Tom Gorzelanny, who was making his third start of the season. Luis Gonzalez and Carroll had sacrifice flies, and Torrealba scored on a throwing error by Gorzelanny.

"It didn't start well," Pirates manager Jim Tracy said. "And it snowballed."

Torrealba and Carroll had two-run doubles in the third to help Colorado build a 7-0 lead.

Gorzelanny (0-2) allowed seven runs, five earned, and four hits with five walks in 2 2-3 innings. He has a 9.26 ERA after three starts with the Pirates after being one of the best pitchers in Triple-A, where he posted a 2.35 ERA in 16 starts for Indianapolis.

"This is the worst outing I think I ever had in my life," Gorzelanny said.

Jason Bay doubled in a run in the third and Freddy Sanchez had a sacrifice fly in the seventh but that was all the runs for the Pirates against Francis.

"To come out with seven runs in the first three innings helps you relax a little bit," Francis said. "But you still have to go after guys and you still have to get outs because they are capable of scoring the same amount of runs."

Holliday's homer to straightaway center in the sixth gave Colorado a 10-1 lead. Freeman added a two-run triple later in the inning.

"One of those nights," Tracy said. "These types of games on our end have been few and far between for us."

Sanchez went 2-for-4 with two RBIs to raise his National League-leading batting average to .365, and Craig Wilson had two hits and an RBI for the Pirates.