Burrell, Werth Leads Phillies Over First-Place Cubs 10-6

CHICAGO (AP) _ Pat Burrell homered and Jayson Werth drove in four runs Thursday as the Philadelphia Phillies had 16 hits and beat the Chicago Cubs 10-6. <br/><br/>Starter Kyle Lohse, acquired in a trade

Thursday, August 2nd 2007, 6:23 pm

By: News On 6

CHICAGO (AP) _ Pat Burrell homered and Jayson Werth drove in four runs Thursday as the Philadelphia Phillies had 16 hits and beat the Chicago Cubs 10-6.

Starter Kyle Lohse, acquired in a trade Monday with Cincinnati, lasted only one inning in his Phillies debut. He was hit by a line drive off the bat off Jacque Jones, bruising a forearm, and had to leave the game.

Philadelphia had three-run rallies in the second and third and drove out Cubs starter Sean Marshall (5-5) after 2 2-3 innings. The Phillies added three more in the ninth.

A day after the Cubs took over first place in the NL Central, Milwaukee lost again to the New York Mets, keeping Chicago ahead of the second-place Brewers by a percentage point.

The Phillies stayed four games behind the Mets in the NL East. J.D. Durbin (4-2), who pitched three innings after replacing Lohse, got the win, even though he gave up three runs and five hits.

Trailing 7-1 early, the Cubs cut the lead to one in the eighth when Alfonso Soriano doubled for his third hit and scored on Ryan Theriot's RBI single off Tom Gordon. Aramis Ramirez walked with two outs to put two on before pinch-hitter Mark DeRosa flied out.

Pinch-hitter Carlos Ruiz had an RBI double in the ninth and Werth followed with a two-run double off Will Ohman, Philadelphia's fourth hit of the inning.

Burrell led off the second with a high drive to center and on a humid 87-degree day, and it carried over the wall for his 15th homer and a 2-1 lead.

Wes Helms followed with a double, Chris Coste singled and pitcher Adam Eaton, pinch-hitting for Lohse, walked to load the bases. Jayson Werth then hit an RBI single and Tadahito Iguchi had a sacrifice fly to make it 4-1.

Burrell had a one-out single in the third, Helms hit another double and the Phillies got two more runs on Coste's RBI infield single and an error. Theriot, the Cubs' shortstop, made a nice stop on Coste's ball, but his throw to first bounded away from Derrek Lee for an error, allowing Helms to score and make it 6-1. Werth greeted reliever Rocky Cherry with an RBI double for a six-run cushion.

Marshall gave up seven runs and nine hits.

The Cubs got two runs back in the third off Durbin on Mike Fontenot's RBI double and a run-scoring infield single by Jones, both with two outs. Derrek Lee had a two-out RBI double in the fourth to make it a three-run game, and pinch-hitter Matt Murton delivered another two-out, run-scoring hit, a single in the fifth off Geoff Geary to cut it to 7-5.

Lohse started shakily and was wild. With two outs, Lee doubled before Lohse hit Ramirez and Cliff Floyd with pitches and walked Fontenot, forcing in a run. Jones then sent a liner through the box that hit Lohse, who picked up the ball and threw him out to end the inning.

Howard hit a two-out RBI single in the first after Rollins doubled to make it 1-0.

Notes: Lohse threw 29 pitches in his only inning. ... Burrell is now 33-for-69 in his last 23 games with six homers. ... The series drew 163,727, a four-game record for Wrigley Field that topped the 161,374 who attended last month's series against the Giants.