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Bats back Ross as Padres pound Cubs

Chicago,  IL  (SportsNetwork.com) - Tyson  Ross finished with a career-high 11 
strikeouts  to help the San Diego Padres in a 13-3 rout of the Chicago Cubs on 
Thursday. 

Ross  (9-10)  stifled the Cubs through  six solid innings, yielding one run on 
five  hits and  a walk. The 27-year-old right-hander received 11 total runs of 
support  in his previous five outings and has given up two or less earned runs 
in seven straight starts. 

Rene  Rivera, Seth  Smith and  Will Venable  each collected  three hits,  with 
Rivera  adding a  home run and three RBI  for San Diego, which has won four of 
its last five. 

Venable, Chris Nelson and Alexi Amarista knocked in two runs apiece. 

"Guys  are  starting to climb with  their averages which is good," said Padres 
manager Bud Black. "Overall, a very good offensive night for all." 

Starlin  Castro,  Luis Valbuena  and Chris  Coghlan each posted  an RBI in the 
setback, Chicago's seventh in its last eight games. 

Edwin  Jackson  (5-11) was charged  with five runs --  four earned -- on seven 
hits over five-plus innings before leaving with cramps in his throwing hand. 

"It  seems that anything that could go wrong has gone wrong over the past 
couple of weeks," Cubs manager Rick Renteria said. 

Much  like Wednesday's win, San Diego put up two in the first to grab an early 
lead.  Following two quick outs, Smith singled and Yasmani Grandal brought him 
home  with  a triple to  right. Grandal ripped  the triple down the first-base 
line  and the ball  got lodged under the wall in foul territory. Right fielder 
Ryan  Sweeney committed a  miscue trying to dig the ball out from the padding, 
allowing Grandal to race around to third instead of settling for a ground-rule 
double.  It wouldn't  have mattered much, as Venable followed with a single to 
center that staked the Padres to a 2-0 advantage. 

Ross  allowed just  two baserunners and struck out six through the first three 
innings, but Chicago got on the board in the fourth. 

Singles  from Anthony Rizzo  and Castro put runners at first and third with no 
outs.  Coghlan went down swinging before Valbuena drove a single to right that 
scored  Rizzo.  Sweeney then  lined out and  John Baker struck  out to end the 
inning. 

Rivera quickly got the run back with a solo shot to begin the fifth inning and 
help restore San Diego's two-run edge. 

The  Padres sent  15 men to the plate  in the sixth, breaking the game open by 
matching the highest-scoring inning in the league this season. Every player in 
the lineup scored during the nine-run frame that helped the visitors to a 12-1 
lead. 

Grandal  started  things with a leadoff  walk before Venable and Jake Goebbert 
each singled to load the bases. Nelson reached on a throwing error by Valbuena 
that pushed a run across, and Rivera followed with a two-run single. 

Ross was hit by a pitch to load the bags again, then Amarista poked a base hit 
into  center that plated Nelson and Rivera for an 8-1 lead. Smith, Venable and 
Nelson all added RBI knocks later in the frame to turn the game into a rout. 

Castro  and  Coghlan provided  RBI singles  in the  home eighth, and Yangervis 
Solarte capped the scoring with a sacrifice fly in the ninth. 

                                   Game Notes 

Toronto scored nine runs in the seventh inning of a 10-0 win over Philadelphia 
on  May  7 ... The  13 runs ties  the club record for  the most ever scored at 
Wrigley Field ... Jackson is winless in his last six starts ... Chicago hasn't 
won  a series  at home since taking  two-of-three from Miami, June 6-8 ... The 
Cubs  continue their 10-game homestand with a three-game set against St. Louis 
on  Friday ...  San Diego concludes its seven-game road trip with a four-game, 
wraparound series in Atlanta. 

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