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. Left-hander Brandon Finnegan (9-10) was scheduled to start for the Reds.TRAINERS ROOMPirates: Cervelli took a foul tip off the inside of his right leg in the eighth inning. After several painful minutes of recuperating, the catcher stayed in the game.Reds: SS Zack Cozart sat out a sixth straight game with a sore right knee.UP NEXTPirates: Ivan Nova (12-6) starts the final game of the series on Sunday. Hes 5-0 with a 2.41 ERA in eight starts since the Pirates acquired him in a trade with the Yankees.Reds: Dan Straily (12-8) will make his fifth start of the season against the Pirates. Hes 1-2 with a 3.12 ERA against Pittsburgh.---Follow Joe Kay on Twitter: http://twitter.com/apjoekay Cheap Nike Sb Online .J. -- Marshawn Lynch said Thursday it will be good to get back to football after the Seattle quiet talking running back wrapped up his final mandatory media session of Super Bowl week. 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We have about a quarter of the season remaining, and I cant remember being this late into a season where the MVP and Cy Young Awards in both leagues remain not just wide-open, but wide-open with so many candidates across all four awards.Check out Dan Szymborskis current MVP and Cy Young prediction percentages, which are based on stat lines, player position and team standing, and then run through a rest-of-the-season simulation. For example, we know whether a team makes the playoffs is an important factor in MVP voting, so Mookie Betts MVP odds go up if the Red Sox are viewed in Dans system as having a better chance at making the postseason. Note that these predictors do not involve using WAR, beyond its relationship to traditional stats.Lets see where the four awards stand right now.NL MVPThe injury to Clayton Kershaw?-- the clear front-runnner for Cy Young and MVP until he went down in late June -- has opened up this race a bit, although it seems like it has settled into a four-player showdown.dddddddddddd Kris Bryant has the significant edge in Baseball-Reference WAR (5.5 to Anthony Rizzos 4.6 among position players), but is tied with Corey Seager at 5.9 in FanGraphs WAR. Daniel Murphy is the intriguing guy here because he leads the NL in batting average and OPS and ranks second in RBIs while playing a premium defensive position, all things voters will love. His WAR numbers (3.9 and 4.6) lag behind because hes a below-average defender and he has missed some games with nagging injuries. He has 62 fewer plate appearances than Bryant, for example. 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