The Morning After: Cubs Fall To Bucs. Again.

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Jun 1, 2010 3:00PM

Randy Wells rebounded from Friday's short, awful outing with a much better performance yesterday, but the Cubs could, once again, not muster any offense and got a less-than-stellar bullpen performance in falling to the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-1. And with the loss, the Cubs are now 1-6 against the lowly Pirates on the year. Wells threw five shutout innings and a Geovanny Soto RBI ground out in the second gave the Cubs an early 1-0 lead, but the Cubs' bullpen gave up two runs in the final three innings while the offense went 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position. Even Lou doesn't know what to do anymore: "One run again. I think that's three out of four games that we had one run. What are you going to do?" Technically, it's actually four out of five if you count last Thursday's 1-0 win over the Dodgers. The Cubs send Ted Lilly to the mound tonight in another attempt to reverse their fortunes against the Pirates (6:05 p.m., CSN+)

The White Sox were off yesterday but open up a series against Texas tonight at The Cell (7:10 p.m., CSN).