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PHILADELPHIA -- Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said after Tuesdays game that he might be onto something.This came after he was reminded that Tuesdays ejection was the 51st of his career and sixth of 2016.Whatever he was trying to do -- whether he was really mad at first base umpire Alan Porter or trying to ignite a team that had lost 12 of 14 -- it worked.The Pirates won when trailing after eight innings for the first time since July 12, 2014 -- a stretch of 140 games.Sean Rodriguezs three-run, go-ahead home run gave Pittsburgh a 5-3 win over the Phillies.The win came at a much-needed time. Theyre not mathematically out of the playoffs just yet, though it would take an awful lot for them to catch the New York Mets or St. Louis Cardinals at this point. They entered Monday six games out of the final wild-card spot.They left Monday with -- finally -- a little bit of momentum.Weve been scratching and clawing every game, Hurdle said. If youre not in the dugout, you dont feel the angst sometimes. When your offense is scratching to score runs, they take the at-bats personal. They try to keep it professional, but they take them personal.For us to battle back like that, it just goes to show you the guys are still going to play, theyre still going to fight.The same can be said of the Phillies starting pitching staff. The offense has put up the lowest run totals in the league, but the organization has to be happy about the young starting pitchers as 2016 winds down.The bullpen, not so much. Jeanmar Gomezs blown save Tuesday was his fifth of the year and he now has a 5.21 ERA in 19 save situations at home this season. The bullpen was a strong suit earlier in the year. But the starters have been hung out to dry lately.Our entire bullpen hasnt really hung in there that well, Phillies manager Pete Mackanin said. 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According to a report from the Vancouver Province, the Lions are expected to replace former DC Rich Stubler with defensive backs coach Mark Washington.The Wallabies have been urged to dream big by coach Michael Cheika as they chase a challenging grand slam quest in a bid to end a horror year on a high.But the measured mentor stopped short of completely endorsing the bold claim from five-eighth Bernard Foley that the Wallabies can win their first grand slam since 1984.Foley made the call in the wake of last weeks tough loss in the third Bledisloe Cup Test of the year, which consigned Cheikas men to a cleansweep at the hands of the All Blacks in 2016 and their seventh loss of a difficult year.But a successful European Tour would go a long way towards winning back an Australian public becoming increasingly jaded with the dipping results from the national team.And becoming the first team since the Alan Jones-coached Wallabies to complete a grand slam - with victories over Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England on the same tour - would be a significant rainbow at the end of a dreary year.It is very important for players to have dreams and of achieving the bigger picture items, Cheika said of Foleys confident prediction.I really believe thats important. IIf you dont have those dreams inside you then what are you doing it for?But the positive outlook was also delivered with a harsh reality check - one which is highlighted by Englands status as the world No.dddddddddddd.2, Irelands well-polished outfit and Welsh and Scottish teams hell-bent on exacting revenge for World Cup campaigns cruelled by the Wallabies.The reality is that in a series like this and a tour like this then it is only the next day that counts, Cheika said.Thats in the background and that will only come to fruition when we are excellent every day.A lot of our players who have not toured the northern hemisphere before will learn about what it is like over here as we get into each day, prepare, learn, grow as a team, which is something we have been doing this year through some hardship and some successes.Just take it a day at a time. If you look too far ahead you will get burnt.Deal with what we have got to do today, get something from it and go from there. ' ' '