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The Chicago Cubs closed out their four game series against the San Diego Padres with wins on Wednesay and Thursday.  On Wednesday the Cubs beat the Padres 8-5 and then on Thursday the Cubs shut the Padres out 4-0.  The Cubs are now up 2 full games on the St. Louis Cardinals in the division.

On Wednesday it was Ted Lilly and Alfonso Soriano leading the way.  Lilly picked up his fourth win of the season and struckout eleven batters over six inning while Soriano hit a lead off home run and collected three rbi in the game.  Lilly and Soriano are heating up and that is a great sign for Cubs fans!

On to Thursday where the Cubs fans seen Jim Edmonds take the field for the first time as a Chicago Cubs.  Edmonds went 1-4 in his Cubs debut.  You could hear some boos as well as cheers for him during his first at bat.

Ryan Dempster stole the show from everybody however as he came within two out of being the first Cubs player to pitch a complete game this season.  Dempster threw 8 1/3 innings while only allowing five hits and zero runs.  Dempster struck out 12 batters as he was locating the ball well all day long.  Kerry Wood came in to get the save which was his eighth of the season.

Derrek Lee had two rbi while Ryan Theriot and Dempster both had one rbi in the game.  All four of the Cubs runs came in the fifth inning when they knocked Greg Maddux out of the game.

Now the Cubs will welcome in the Pittsburgh Pirates for a weekend series.  The Cubs are 6-0 against the Pirates this year so I would expect them to have a pretty good weekend.

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