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CINCINNATI -- The baseball rested on James Taillons folding chair. He wasnt sure, but he assumed it was the keepsake from his first career RBI, the best part of the rookies latest start.Taillon pitched five innings and singled to drive in a big league run for the first time, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates over the Cincinnati Reds 10-4 Saturday in the first game of a doubleheader.Andrew McCutchen drove in three runs for the Pirates, who opened the day with a 5 1/2-game gap and three teams to overcome in order to get a wild card berth. Cincinnati was eliminated from postseason contention.Taillon (4-4) gave up eight hits, including Adam Duvalls three-run homer. His RBI single to center in the fifth made it 7-3, although he didnt realize initially that it would drive in a run.Actually I was so caught up in trying to get to first base and not doing anything stupid, he said. The first major league RBI is pretty cool. I hope Im doing with all of the career `firsts now.The Pirates skipped Taillons previous turn in the rotation, trying to limit the rookies innings. He missed the 2014 and `15 seasons while recovering from Tommy John surgery and an operation to repair a hernia.Pittsburgh sent nine batters to the plate in a 17-minute top of the first inning against Anthony DeSclafani (8-4), scoring four times with the help of three walks and the first of a six combined errors in the game. McCutchen singled home a pair of runs, and Francisco Cervelli had an RBI single.Sean Rodriguezs two-run homer made it 6-0 in the third inning. McCutchen added a sacrifice fly in the Pirates third straight big game on offense -- 34 runs total.Theyre just stringing at-bats together, manager Clint Hurdle said. We got some big innings today. Throughout the lineup, guys were doing things.DeSclafani missed the first two months of the season with a strained oblique and skipped his prior turn. He gave up six runs in four innings, his shortest start in his last 15.It was just a bad game, DeSclafani said. It was my fault. I couldnt get any momentum going. I put us in hole early.The first pitch was delayed 62 minutes because of rain. The doubleheader, the first between the teams since a Reds sweep on Aug. 31, 2009, made up a May 10 postponement.STATSDuvalls career-high 92 RBI are the most by a Reds batter in a season since Jay Bruce had 109 in 2013. It was Duvalls first homer since Sept. 6. ... Reds pitchers walked 10 overall, tying their season high. ... Wade LeBlanc pitched the last three innings of the lopsided game for his second save of his career. The other came in the same situation during Seattles 14-5 win over the Mariners on July 23.GAME 2Trevor Williams (1-1) was scheduled to make his first major league start in the second game. Williams was the MVP at Triple-A Indianapolis. Hed be the 14th different starter for the Pirates this season, their most since 1996. 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Spiller left Week 3s 27-20 loss to the New York Jets with a thigh injury, but fully practiced with the team all week and expects to be ready to go on Sunday. UNCASVILLE, Conn. -- Alex Bentley scored 21 points, Jasmine Thomas had 14 points, six rebounds, six assists and four steals, and the Connecticut Sun beat the San Antonio Stars 89-62 on Tuesday night.Bentley made back-to back 3-pointers to start the game as the Sun scored 22 of the first 27 points. Thomas and Bentley each had eight points during the spurt and Connecticut cruised from there.Alyssa Thomas and Chiney Ogwumike each scored 16 points for Connecticut (10-17), ranked ninth in the AP power poll. Camille Little was the only starter not in double figures for the Sun but she tied a career-high with seven assissts.dddddddddddd Jonquel Jones and Shekinna Stricklen added nine points apiece off the bench.Connecticut made 59 percent of its shots in the first half, including 5 of 6 from 3-point range. San Antonio was held to 9-of-29 shooting (31 percent) in the opening 20 minutes.Astou Ndour scored 12 points, and Moriah Jefferson and Monique Currie each added 10 points for 12th-ranked San Antonio (6-20). The Stars, who were coming off a win at Washington, havent won consecutive games this season. ' ' '