Pittsburgh pummels Reds, 9-2; Bay homers

The Pirates scored four times for their best first inning of the season.
CINCINNATI (AP) -- Dave Williams allowed only one hit in seven innings and Jason Bay hit a two-run home run in Pittsburgh's four-run first to lead the Pirates to a 9-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday night.
Ty Wigginton hit a two-run shot in the second and Humberto Cota added a solo homer in the third to boost Pittsburgh's lead to 7-0 and give Williams all the support he needed.
He didn't allow a hit until pinch-hitter Jacob Cruz doubled in Javier Valentin, who walked with two outs in the fifth.
That was the only hit Williams (5-4) gave up as he matched his longest outing of the season and won for the fourth time in five starts. He walked five and struck out five.
Pittsburgh jumped out to a 4-0 lead with its biggest first inning of the season. Freddy Sanchez doubled on Eric Milton's second pitch, and Bay followed one-out later with his 11th homer -- a 412-foot shot into the upper deck in left field. After Wigginton struck out, Jose Castillo singled and moved to third on Michael Restovich's ground-rule double to right-center. Both runners scored on Cota's bloop single to right.
Two more runs
The Pirates added two runs in the second on Sanchez's leadoff single and Wigginton's fifth homer of the season. He has hit them all in his last eight starts.
Sanchez was playing with nine stitches in his left wrist after getting cut by Felipe Lopez's broken bat while fielding a grounder on the last play of Friday's game.
Cota made it 7-0 by leading off the third with his third homer. Milton (3-6), who has given up a major league-leading 20 home runs this season, allowed nine hits and seven runs in three innings -- the shortest of his 11 starts this season.
The left-hander yielded an NL-leading 43 homers last season with Philadelphia.
Lopez made it 7-2 in the eighth when he hit his third home run in four games and eighth of the season.
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LOB--Pittsburgh 8, Cincinnati 9. 2B--Sanchez (7), Restovich (4), JaCruz (5). HR--Bay (11), Wigginton (5), Cota (3), FLopez (8). S--DWilliams. SF--Castillo.
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HBP--by RWagner (Hill). WP--DWilliams, Milton. Umpires--Home, Fieldin Culbreth; First, Marvin Hudson; Second, Larry Young; Third, Eric Cooper. T--2:39. A--30,739.