MINNEAPOLIS — In the team’s grit­ti­est pitch­ing per­for­mances of the sea­son, Rock­ies starter Ger­man Mar­quez and clos­er Daniel Bard com­bined to shut out the Twins, 1–0, here Fri­day night at Tar­get Field.

The vic­to­ry, which took a mere 2 hours and 17 min­utes to com­plete,  snapped the Rock­ies’ three-game los­ing streak.

It wasn’t the pret­ti­est of gems — more like a rhine­stone than a dia­mond — but Mar­quez pitched a gut­sy 7 2/3 innings before giv­ing way to Bard, who retired four Twins in a row to earn his 15th save.

Mar­quez allowed only three hits, and only one was hit with a lot of author­i­ty. He struck out only two but walked five, includ­ing lead­off walks in the first, third, sixth and eighth innings. Mar­quez car­ried a no-hit­ter into the fourth inning before Max Kepler led off with a sin­gle. Kepler was quick­ly erased on a dou­ble play.

Ryan Jef­fers paint­ed the left-field line with a two-out dou­ble in the fifth, but Mar­quez calm­ly got Gilber­to Celesti­no to ground out to sec­ond. Mar­quez record­ed 12 outs via groundballs.

The Rock­ies scraped togeth­er their only run of the game off of right-han­der Dylan Bundy in the sixth inning. Con­nor Joe drilled a one-out sin­gle to right and raced to third on Yonathan Daza’s bloop sin­gle to cen­ter. Joe scored on Char­lie Blackmon’s ground­out to short to give the Rock­ies a 1–0 lead.

Bundy lim­it­ed the Rock­ies to four hits over his six innings, strik­ing out two and walk­ing two. In six home starts this sea­son, he’s 2–0 with a 2.10 ERA.

Col­orado had a chance to blow the game open in the eighth. Elias Diaz drew a lead­off walk and Joe rapped his sec­ond hit of the night. Jonathan Daza ground­ed into a dou­ble play — the Rock­ies’ third of the night — but Diaz advanced to third. Up came Char­lie Black­mon, who scorched a sink­ing lin­er to right field only to see Kepler make a bril­liant div­ing catch to end the inning.