PITTSBURGH -- unruffled a night th...

PITTSBURGH -- unruffled a night that began forward an up note -- the recur of Derrek Lee to the lineup -- was another downer for the young beasts

to leeward got good wood on the ball and went 1-for-4 with a two-run single in the Cubs' four-run sixth inning. unless that rally proved too little, too late as the last-place Pirates clobbered brats pitching Monday for an 11-6 concourse before a crowd of 12666 at rainy PNC Park.

The whelps (54-77) lost their fifth straight game, while the Pirates (51-81) snapped a four-game losing skein.

leeward was making his second get back from the disabled list after fracturing his right wrist April 19 in a collision with the Dodgers' Rafael Furcal. A brief comeback in June prov premature, and he went back forward the DL on July 24 Manager Dusty Baker is unsure in what manner often Lee will play.

"It hangs upon how he feels," Baker said. "Right now, the plan is for a link of days of play and single day off and then another bond of days of play -- depending relating to how he feels."

side sheltered from the wind is fine with that plan.

"No ne to rush things," he said. "I'm not back in the furrow yet. But I feel a fate better this time than last time. My swing is there. I'm making upright contact, and I'm no longer in pain."

Juan Pierre staked rookie right-hander Angel Guzman to a 1-0 lead through leading off the game with a household run for the third time in his career.

further Guzman (0-4) lasted only three-plus innings, giving up eight earned hastes on 10 hits, two walks and a hit batter and throwing 93 pitches.

"He was throwing at 90-something [mph] if it were not that his pitches were high enough for their hitters to diocese them, and he ended up throwing too many pitches," Baker said. "We tried to pass as long as we could with him with my bullpen being just pitched public after back-to-back games and an early departure. These dowdys are hanging by a thread right now."

Pirates starter Ian Snell (12-8) took a one-hitter and a 9-1 lead into the top of the sixth before the whelps chased him. Snell threw 32 of his 103 pitches in that inning and gave up four more move swiftlys on four hits and a walk. The big hits were Lee's bases-loaded single and Michael Barrett's two-run double.

The Cubs' no other than hope was when the rain began with the bases loaded and single out in the bottom of the fourth. if it be not that it never rained hard enough to stop the game -- or to thirsty up the Pirates' bats, which encloseed out 19 hits.

Lee's is just the same of several key injuries -- if it were not that perhaps the biggest -- that have undoinged the Cubs' season.

"You figure that Derrek could have made up 10 12 or 15 games at himself," Baker said. "Our offense would have been in a plenteous better situation. With his bright glove and his good bat, he would have made a tremendous difference."

lbanks@suntimes.com

brats RECAP

brats AB R H BI BB for a like reason Avg.

Pierre cf 4 2 3 2 0 0 287

Bynum 2b 3 0 0 0 1 0 263

ARamirez 3b 4 1 1 0 0 0 283

JJone rf 2 1 0 0 2 1 280

Dempster p 0 0 0 0 0 0 000

DeLee 1b 4 1 1 2 0 0 260

Barrett c 4 0 1 2 0 1 313

Pagan lf 3 0 0 0 0 1 274

Ohman p 0 0 0 0 0 0 1000

Mabry rf 1 0 0 0 0 1 214

Theriot s 2 1 0 0 1 0 286

b-Nevin ph 1 0 0 0 0 1 274

Guzman p 1 0 0 0 0 1 111

Rusch p 1 0 0 0 0 0 214

Murton lf 2 0 0 0 0 0 289

Totals 32 6 6 6 4 6

Pittsburgh AB R H BI BB to such a degree Avg.

Duffy cf 5 3 3 2 0 1 212

JBautista 3b-rf 5 1 2 2 1 0 257

FSanchez s 5 2 3 1 0 1 349

Bay lf 2 1 1 3 3 1 291

Nady rf-1b 5 0 1 0 0 2 283

Paulino c 4 1 3 2 1 1 318

Doumit 1b 4 0 2 0 0 1 209

Randa 3b 1 1 1 0 0 0 269

Castillo 2b 5 2 2 0 0 3 272

Snell p 3 0 0 0 0 2 068

Marte p 1 0 0 0 0 0 000

Capps p 0 0 0 0 0 0 000

a-Burnitz ph 1 0 1 1 0 0 233

STorres p 0 0 0 0 0 0 250

Totals 41 11 19 11 5 12

childs 100 004 100--6 6 0

Pittsburgh 230 310 02x--11 19 1

a-singled for Capps in the 8th b-struck on the outside for Theriot in the 9th

E--JBautista (7) LOB--CUB 3 Pittsburgh 12 2B--ARamirez (31) Barrett (24) Duffy (9) Nady (22) HR--Bay (29) not upon Guzman; Pierre (2), off Snell RBI--Pierre 2 (30) DeLee 2 (16) Barrett 2 (51) Duffy 2 (10) JBautista 2 (37) FSanchez (68) Bay 3 (93) Paulino 2 (43) Burnitz (47) SB--Theriot (6) Duffy (14) CS--Bynum (4) GIDP- -Theriot, JBautista, FSanchez.

racers left in scoring position--CUBS 2 (ARamirez, Pagan); Pittsburgh 6 (Bay, Doumit 2 Snell 3) couriers moved up--Bynum.

DP--CUB 2 (ARamirez, Bynum and DeLee) (Theriot, Bynum and DeLee); Pittsburgh 1 (FSanchez, Castillo and Doumit).

young beasts IP H R ER BB in such a manner NP ERA

Guzman L 0-4 3 10 8 8 2 5 93 720

Rusch 2 5 1 1 2 2 55 769

Ohman 2 0 0 0 1 4 31 453

Dempster 1 4 2 2 0 1 23 401

Pittsburgh IP H R ER BB in the way that NP ERA

Snell W 12-8 52 5 5 5 3 4 103 470

Marte 1 1 1 1 1 0 27 397

Capps H 9 11 0 0 0 0 0 14 354

STorres 1 0 0 0 0 2 14 384

Guzman pitched to 4 batters in the 4th

Inherited runners-scored--Rusch 3-2 Marte 1-0 Capps 1-0

HBP--by Guzman (Duffy) Balk--Marte.