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Saturday, July 21, 2007

Cubs Beat Arizona 6-2; on 19-5 Tear        Send a link to a friend

[July 21, 2007]  CHICAGO (AP) -- Aramis Ramirez homered and had four RBIs and Jacque Jones added a pair of two-out RBI singles as the surging Chicago Cubs won for the 19th time in 24 games by beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-2 Friday.

Jason Marquis (7-5) allowed four hits over 7 2-3 innings, including Chris Young's 15th homer, to get the victory and run Chicago's record to 7-1 since the All-Star break.

Brandon Webb (8-8), the 2006 NL Cy Young Award winner, gave up five hits and three runs _ two earned_ in seven innings and is 0-3 in four starts since June 27. He also lost to the Cubs for the first time in his career after going 4-0 against them in six previous starts.

The Diamondbacks have lost 10 of their past 13.

Ramirez hit his 16th homer, a three-run shot, in the eighth off reliever Brandon Lyon.

The Cubs scored all three of their runs off Webb with two outs. Both rallies were sparked by a Mike Fontenot stolen base and RBI single by Jones, who had four hits on Thursday against the Giants.

Fontenot walked with one out in the fourth, stole second and scored on Jones' two-out single, Chicago's first hit off Webb. After Young put the Diamondbacks ahead in the fifth with his 15th homer, a two-run shot into a 10 mph wind blowing in from left, the Cubs retook the lead in the bottom of the sixth.

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Fontenot singled with two outs, stole second again and scored on a two-out RBI single by Ramirez, who raced to second when Arizona right fielder Jeff DaVanon bobbled the ball for an error. Jones, who'd been the subject of trade rumors last month but has settled in as the Cubs starting center fielder, then delivered again with another run-scoring single for a 3-2 lead.

Notes:@ With Derrek Lee (suspension), Cliff Floyd (sore neck and side) and Daryle Ward (DL, calf injury) all out, the Cubs used a reworked lineup featuring Fontenot batting third and Scott Moore, just called up from the minors, playing first base. ... Former Cubs first baseman and Diamondbacks TV analyst Mark Grace threw out the first pitch. He got a loud ovation. ...Arizona's Chad Tracy was back in the starting lineup Friday after missing two games with tendinitis in his right knee. The left-handed hitting Tracy might sit out one or both of the next two games against the Cubs with left-handers Rich Hill and Sean Marshall scheduled to be on the mound.

[Associated Press; By RICK GANO]

      

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