Cubs continue homestand against Braves

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07/06/2009 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Chicago Cubs will resume their 11-game homestand tonight with the first of three straight games versus the Atlanta Braves at Wrigley Field.

Chicago has won four of its last five games and opened the residency by winning three of four meetings with Milwaukee, including Sunday's 8-2 victory thanks to home runs from Derrek Lee and Jake Fox. Lee ended with three RBI and Fox knocked in a pair of runs for the Cubs, who sit 2 1/2 games behind St. Louis for the NL Central lead. Chicago will host the Cardinals for four games from July 10-12 to close out the residency.

Mike Fontenot and Kosuke Fukudome each had two hits and an RBI, while starting pitcher Ted Lilly earned the win with 6 1/3 innings of two-run ball. Lilly allowed nine hits, struck out nine batters and did not issue a walk for his eighth win of the season. He will be the lone representative of the Cubs for next week's All-Star Game in St. Louis.

"I'm excited and looking forward to it, and I hope I get an opportunity to pitch in it -- that'd be fun, too," Lilly told the team's site. "Maybe we'll win so the Cubs can get some home-field advantage in the World Series."

Randy Wells is pitching like a World Series MVP and will try to stretch his current winning streak to four straight starts Monday. Wells made it three wins in a row the last time out on July 1 at Pittsburgh, as he gave up a run and six hits in seven innings of a 4-1 triumph.

The right-hander is 3-3 with a 2.43 ERA in 10 starts this season, and will face Atlanta for the second time this season and in his career. Wells did not record a decision in a 6-5 loss at the Braves on June 2, when he yielded two runs -- one earned -- on two hits in seven innings of work.

Atlanta lost the last two meetings of a three-game series at Washington over the weekend and suffered a 5-3 setback in Sunday's series finale. Derek Lowe absorbed the loss for allowing four runs and 10 hits in 5 1/3 innings of work.

"That's not your typical Lowe performance at all, and he's had a couple of them," Braves manager Bobby Cox said on the team's Web site. "The sinker sometimes sinks; other times, it ends up over the plate."

Nate McLouth homered and ended with two RBI, while Martin Prado added a four- hit effort for Atlanta, which is tied with New York at four games behind Philadelphia for the NL East lead. The Braves had won five straight before losing the last two meetings in DC and will also visit Colorado for four games on the current trek. Catcher Brian McCann earned his fourth All-Star Game bid and is the lone Atlanta player on the NL roster.

Cox will hand the ball to Jair Jurrjens tonight and he got back into the win column the last time out on July 1 versus Philadelphia. Jurrjens held the Phillies to one unearned run and one hit in seven innings of an 11-1 victory, and was 0-4 in five starts before improving to 6-6 in 17 starts.

Jurrjens, a right-hander, is 3-2 in eight road starts this season and has never faced the Cubs in his career.

Atlanta has won two of three matchups with Chicago this season, but the Cubs are 10-4 over the past 14 meetings between the clubs.

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