The Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals played in front of a national tv audience on ESPN on Sunday night and the Cubs played pretty bad in a 5-3 loss to the Cardinals.  Albert Pujols broke a 2-2 tie in the fourth inning with a two run double and the Cubs didn’t have an anwser after that.

Jason Marquis struggled as he only lasted 5.1 innings as he gave up all five runs.  Marquis isn’t throwing the ball that well and his record shows that as it is now 1-2 on the season.  On Sunday night he walked five batters so he is having some control problems.

Alfonso Soriano, Kosuke Fukudome, and Reed Johnson all had an RBI in the game for the Cubs.  The Cubs really struggled as they only had five hits off the Cardinals pitching staff.

It really sucks losing two out of three against the Cardinals.  The Cubs are now 1.5 games behind the Cardinals in the division standings.  The Cubs will begin a three game series with the Cincinnati Reds on Monday night.  Hopefully they can pick up that 1.5 games this next series and be right back on top of the Cardinals.

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