Cubs lose, Brewers win, leaving us with this with 5 games to go:

Team       W      L       Pct.      GB
Cubs      83      74      .529      --
Brewers   81      76      .516      2

The Cubs fell victim to their one-time farm-hand, Dontrelle Willis. The Cubs managed to get just 2 hits off of Willis in his 8 innings. Willis came into tonight's game having allowed 236 hits in 194.2 innings. He's had a better year at the plate (109 OPS+) than on the mound. Nevertheless, two of his ten wins have come in his two starts against the Cubs.

Meanwhile, 1500 miles to the north, Milwaukee blew out St. Louis. In the first two games of their four game series, the Brewers have outscored the Cardinals 22-6. And they did it against the Cardinals' two winningest pitchers, Adam Wainwright and Braden Looper.

Tomorrow, the Cubs have Jason Marquis going against rookie Daniel Barone. Barone has not pitched more than 5.2 innings in his 5 starts this season. His last start came on September 19, when he allowed 4 runs in 4.1 innings against Atlanta.

In Milwaukee, the Cardinals will throw Joel Pineiro against Carlos Villenueva. Villenueva has allowed just 4 runs in 24 innings since being inserted into the starting rotation on September 4.

UPDATE (9/26/07 4:40pm): It appears the Cardinals will throw Brad Thompson instead of Pineiro tonight.