The Cubs seven game winning streak came to an end on Saturday afternoon as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Cubs 5-2. The Cubs had plenty of opportunities to score some runs, but the offense sputtered with runners on base and never came up with a big hit to get a rally going.

Ted Lilly took the loss on the mound and fell to 13-8 on the season. He gave up a solo home run to Jayson Werth in the fifth inning and then a two run single to Werth in the sixth. Lilly wasn’t too bad, just made some mistake pitches that Werth made him pay for.

Neal Cotts was terrible out of the pen as he came in for Lilly. Cotts gave up solo home runs to Werth and Ryan Howard in the eighth inning. Those two home runs were some big insurance runs for the Phillies as the Cubs were not able to come back.

Aramis Ramirez attemped to get the Cubs going as he had a rbi single in the bottom of the eighth inning. However with two runners on base, the Phillies brought in J.C. Romero and he struck out Jim Edmonds, Ronny Cedeno, and Geovany Soto to end the inning. Soto had the Cubs first run of the game in the second inning when he singled and  Mark DeRosa scored.

The Cubs will try to win the series on Sunday afternoon as they face the Phillies for the last time of the regular season. Carlos Zambrano will get the start for the Cubs and hopefully he will throw the ball well and and not be wild like he has been in his last four starts.

Let’s start a new winning streak! GO CUBS!