Cubs batter Fogg in Chicago win(d)

With a steady wind blowing out, the Cubs homered four times off Josh Fogg.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Michael Barrett used to watch Chicago Cubs games as a kid and hope he'd someday be able to play at Wrigley Field.
Never did he imagine a day quite like this, though.
Barrett connected twice in the first multi-homer game of his career Thursday, helping the Cubs beat up Josh Fogg and the Pittsburgh Pirates, 10-5.
Barrett went 2-for-4, and the Cubs finished with 12 hits, including a season-high nine for extra bases.
"I feel great right now," said Barrett, hitting .333 with a team-high nine RBIs. "It's just hard for me to believe I'm a member of this team and we're off to a decent start and I've got the opportunity to play at Wrigley Field. I'm a little overwhelmed right now."
Aramis Ramirez homered for a second straight day, and Moises Alou also hit a home run. Carlos Zambrano (1-0) settled down after a couple of early jams, scattering one run and six hits over six innings.
Long ball
Jack Wilson and Humberto Cota hit first-pitch solo homers in the ninth, but it wasn't enough to bail out Fogg.
Fogg (0-2) has struggled to keep the ball in the park, giving up a team-high 28 homers in 2002 and 22 in his 26 starts last year. And if his first two starts are any indication, this year could be more of the same.
He gave up two in his first start last Friday, and the Cubs took him deep four times in just four innings Thursday. He gave up nine runs and eight hits, and his ERA ballooned from 5.40 to 12.00.
"I'm not the kind of guy that can afford to walk guys and then give up three-run home runs," Fogg said. "If I can keep those to solo home runs, we have a shot in that game. I was putting guys on before they were hitting them, and that's a cardinal sin in my book."
The wind didn't help. With the wind blowing out at 14 mph, balls that wouldn't have a chance of going out on other days carried a couple of rows into the bleachers. But Fogg blamed himself, not the elements.
"Zambrano pitched in the same park," Fogg said. "He did a better job of keeping the ball down."
Former Pirate
Ramirez started the barrage in the first, putting Fogg's 3-1 pitch into the shrubbery in center field for a three-run homer. It was Ramirez's third homer in two days against his old team, and his sixth since the Pirates traded him to the Cubs last July 22.
"I see them like any other team," said Ramirez, who spent his first 5 1/2 seasons with the Pirates. "I just try to go out there and hit the ball as hard as I can."
Then it was Barrett's turn. He hit a two-run shot into the bushes in the second, and added a leadoff shot in the fourth to give Chicago a 9-1 lead. Alou had a three-run homer in the fourth.
"If I give up four solo jacks, it's 5-4 and we're still in the game," Fogg said. "When you give up nine runs in the first four innings, it's going to be a long road back."