Chicago, IL - Yusmeiro Petit pitched six scoreless innings and Chris Snyder homered as the Arizona Diamondbacks blanked the Chicago Cubs, 3-0, in the finale of a three-game set at Wrigley Field.
Petit (2-2) yielded just three hits without surrendering a walk and struck out five. Jose Valverde pitched the ninth for his 30th save in 33 chances.
Conor Jackson had two hits and an RBI and Chris Snyder had two hits, an RBI and a run scored for the Diamondbacks, who have won two in a row since losing five of six.
Chicago starter Sean Marshall (4-4) went six innings, allowing one run on five hits with two walks and five strikeouts.
Alfonso Soriano, Ryan Theriot, Mike Fontenot and Jason Kendall accounted for the four hits for the Cubs, who lost their first series at home since June 15-17 against San Diego.
Arizona got on the board in the first. Eric Byrnes singled to center with two outs and stole second. After a walk to Jackson, Mark Reynolds plated Byrnes with a single to left, giving the Diamondbacks a 1-0 edge.
The Diamondbacks got two more runs off Cubs reliever Carlos Marmol in the seventh. Snyder hit his eighth homer of the year, a shot to left-center. Then with two outs, Jackson singled to right, scoring Chris Young, who had walked and stole second.
Game Notes
Chicago had won their four previous series at Wrigley Field…Arizona relievers have pitched eight scoreless innings in the past two games…The Cubs finished their homestand with a 7-3 record…Derrek Lee served the final game of a five-game suspension for the Cubs…Kendall got his first hit as a member of the Cubs in the fifth inning. Kendall was traded to the Cubs on Monday from Oakland. He had been 0-for-9 since the trade…Attendance was 41,705.
