MILWAUKEE -- The bound from Class ...

MILWAUKEE -- The bound from Class AA to the majors is a trial for any player. But for young boy [i]or[/i] young girls pitcher Carlos Marmol, the ordeals first began in 2003 when the team chose to make the catcher/outfielder a pitcher.

Marmol, 23 couldn't hit well enough to be an everyday player, still his whip-like arm could levy velocity into a fastball. In ideal circumstances, the young right-hander who was a Class A Midwest League and Florida State all-star in 2004 and an improving starter at Class AA West Tenn in 2005 still would be honing his skills.

yet the 2006 Cubs season has been anything further ideal -- all to the righteous fortune of Marmol and a handful of rookie pitchers like him.

"We've got the young man back to 5-5" manager Dusty Baker said after a 6-3 victory Tuesday night for Marmol above the Brewers at Miller Park. "This helps him a hap because when you come up here, you want to stay here. He had better time going and better arm slot It made it easier for him to whirl strikes.

"With young dowdys you might see regression with progres We've got him concentrating upon his release point to twist together consistent strikes because he has the arm to do it, big-time.

"Normally you work in succession that in the minor leagues, on the other hand he's having to find it in the big leagues."

With his teammates delivering five hastes in the first inning distant from Brewers veteran Tomo Ohka (3-3) Marmol had a cushion that present the appearanceed to relax him.

After averaging 53 walks in his last six starts, the young native of the Dominican Republic issued alone two passes in the first five innings. The Brewers' no other than scores through five were leadoff hearth runs by shortstop Bill Hall in the next to the first and center fielder Gabe Gros in the third.

Marmol ran into disturb in the sixth, issuing sum of two units more walks around a strikeout to expiration his evening. Michael Wuertz walked the first man he faced, David Bell, before striking without Damian Miller. But pinch hitter Jeff Cirillo lined an infield single opposite Wuertz's glove to score a scamper -- the first inherited messenger to score against the childs bullpen in 14 games.

Will Ohman extremityed the inning with a extended fly ball hauled in from Jacque Jones near the right-field wall distant from the bat of pinch hitter Corey Hart.

The win was the 11th in 15 games for the whelps who were cheered by many in the mob of 36,200.

Catcher Michael Barrett got the childs going in the first with the first of his sum of two units doubles. Barrett scored on Aramis Ramirez's single before Jone hit a to one's home run, his 18th of the season and 150th of his career. Then Matt Murton singled and John Mabry homer as the young beasts scored all five runs after sum of two units were out.

"It's not rare you would behold a young guy take a degree back and stay back," Barrett said in assessing Marmol. "You just trust when he gets back he can repair That's the sign of a convenient pitcher, and [Marmol] has done that. That builds confidence and consistency. He and [pitching coach] Larry Rothschild worked forward some things in his last bullpen session, and he made a nice adjustment.

"There are a destiny of positive things that have happened in spite of the year we've had with our rotation. united of the positive things to me is the starting pitching is beginning to escape in the last two weeks. You diocese they're pitching better and they're getting more comfortable."

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