Cubs top Dodgers to keep pace in NL Central

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09/06/2007 - Chicago, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Mark DeRosa finished 3-for-4 with two RBI and two runs scored, and the Chicago Cubs topped the Los Angeles Dodgers, 8-2, in the third of a four-game set.

Ted Lilly (14-7) held the Dodgers to six hits and two runs through 6 2/3 innings, fanning three and walking one for the Cubs, who had dropped the first two games of the series. Chicago remained a half-game ahead of the Milwaukee Brewers in the NL Central. Milwaukee routed the Astros, 14-2, on Wednesday.

Aramis Ramirez homered for the Cubs, who will try to earn the series split on Thursday afternoon.

Eric Stults (1-3) fared better at the plate then he did on the mound, as he went 2-for-2, but gave up eight hits and four runs -- three earned -- in 4 1/3 innings, with two strikeouts and two walks. Mike Lieberthal went 1-for-3 and scored twice for the Dodgers, who saw their three-game win streak come to an end.

Los Angeles remained in a tie with the Phillies for second place in the wild- card race, 3 1/2 games back of the Padres and Diamondbacks, who are tied for the NL West and wild card leads. San Diego and Arizona played each other later Wednesday night.

The Cubs took the early lead in the second on Geovany Soto's RBI single to left. Ramirez extended the lead to 3-0 in the third when, with two outs and a man on, he ripped a shot to left, his 20th homer of the season.

Lieberthal doubled to right with one out in the fifth, moved to third on a single by Stults, and came home on Rafael Furcal's sacrifice fly. DeRosa roped a one-out double to center in the fifth, though, and Derrek Lee got one run right back with his RBI single to right.

Pinch-hitter Olmedo Saenz roped an RBI double to center in the seventh to make it a two-run game, but the Cubs broke it open with a four-spot in the eighth. Soto worked a one-out walk, and quickly came home on Ryan Theriot's pinch- double to right. Theriot then stole third, and was driven in by Jacque Jones' single to center. Alfonso Soriano kept the inning going with a double to left, and then DeRosa singled to left, plating two more runs to give the Cubs a six-run cushion.

Game Notes

Chicago improved to 5-4 on their 10-game homestand. Of the Cubs' 35 runs on the homestand, 21 have come in the sixth inning or later...Lilly is now one win shy of becoming the first Cubs lefty to record 15 wins since Greg Hibbard in 1993.

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