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Friday, Jun. 23 7:05pm ET
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MIAMI (AP) -- Just when it looked like Friday night's game would be a pitcher's duel, Mike Lowell injected some offense. "You just have to be patient," he said after hitting a two-run homer in a four-run fifth inning that led the Florida Marlins over the Chicago Cubs 6-1. Luis Castillo had four singles in five at-bats for Florida, improving his average to .365. He also scored twice. Brad Penny (4-6) allowed one run in six innings for his first victory since April 23, and Ricky Bones pitched the final two innings for the Marlins. Lowell's home run, his 10th of the season, gave the Marlins a 5-0 lead when his drive off Jon Lieber (5-5) cleared the left-center field wall and scored Cliff Floyd ahead of him. "You have two good pitchers so an inning like that one proved to be big," Lowell said. Marlins manager John Boles was impressed with Penny's performance. "Once he got past the first inning he settled down," Boles said. Floyd had reached on a single to right, which drove in Castillo with the Marlins' first run of the inning. Floyd's single also advanced Mark Kotsay, who had reached on a walk, to third and Kotsay then scored on Preston Wilson's sacrifice fly for a 3-0 lead. "I take a lot of the blame," Lieber said. "I missed bad on some pitches." Damon Buford's homer in the sixth, his 11th of the season, was the lone run for the Cubs. "I'm lost right now finding the right combination," Cubs manager Don Baylor said. "We'll give this a different look tomorrow." Florida added a run in the sixth when Floyd's groundout scored pinch-hitter Kevin Millar, who had singled and moved to third on singles by Castillo and Kotsay. Florida scored in the first when Castillo singled and came home on Kotsay's double down the left-field line. Sammy Sosa had a chance to help the Cubs in the first, but he grounded into a double play after Eric Young walked and Ricky Gutierrez singled. Game notesRHP Chuck Smith, 30, will make his third major league start Saturday. Smith is the Marlins' second pitcher in his 30s to make his major league debut this season, joining reliever Joe Strong, 37. ... With his first-inning double, Kotsay now has hit safely in 10 of his last 12 starts. ... SS Ricky Gutierrez, who played at Miami's American High, was recalled from an injury assignment in Class A Daytona Beach and activated prior to Friday's game. To make room for Gutierrez, the Cubs optioned SS Augie Ojeda to Triple-A Iowa. ... Buford's home run in the sixth gave him a career-best 11. | ALSO SEE Baseball Scoreboard Chicago Cubs Clubhouse Florida Clubhouse RECAPS Detroit 7 Cleveland 6
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