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Alfonso Soriano also drove in a run on a fly and Kosuke Fukudome and Ronny Cedeno had RBI singles to help the Cubs beat the Pirates for the eighth time in nine meetings this season.
Adam LaRoche hit a two-run homer and drove in three runs for the Pirates.
Cubs starter Jason Marquis (2-3) won for the first time since April 19, allowing two earned runs on four hits in six innings. Bob Howry, Carlos Marmol and Kerry Wood finished with three scoreless innings. Wood pitched a perfect ninth for his 10th save.
Phil Dumatrait (1-2) walked seven batters in 4 2-3 innings. He walked the first three batters of the third inning, and Soriano's fly and Cedeno's single tied it at 2 after LaRoche's two-run homer in the first.
Fukudome led off the fourth inning with a walk, took third on a double steal after Mark DeRosa's single and come home on Johnson's go-ahead fly.
Dumatrait was pulled after Fukudome's two-out RBI single follwed two more bases on balls.
Notes: Before the game, the Cubs placed PH Daryle Ward on the 15-day disabled list with a bulging disc in his back and purchased the contract of OF Micah Hoffpauir from Triple-A Iowa. Hoffpauir struck out as a pinch hitter in the fifth. ... Despite owning the second best record in baseball, Cubs manager Lou Piniella is remaining cautious. "I think we have a chance. A lot of baseball to be played, a lot of things can happen. Like I said, the division has gotten tougher, the National League as a whole, we're little bit more of a marked team and I think for people to make those conclusions if they feel that good about it, they should load up in Vegas, but I don't feel that way," Piniella said.
[Associated Press]
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