Game One Hundred One - Cubs 1 Astros 6
WP - Brett Myers (8-6) LP - Andrew Cashner (1-4) Save - None

Once again Ted Lilly did everything he could to post a win ... and once again the offense gave him zero support. In what was likely Ted Lilly's last game in a Cubs' uniform he left with two outs in the sixth after not allowing a run.

Ted Lilly entered Tuesday night with the lowest run support in all of baseball ... and the Cubs' pathetic offense did not disappoint. Lilly received a no decision and gave up just five hits with three walks and eight strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings. Lilly threw 113 pitches, 67 for strikes.

The Cubs' offense (and that word is used loosely) totaled two hits and one was of the infield variety in the first eight innings off Brett Myers. Tyler Colvin broke up the shut out with his 16th homer in the ninth. Starlin Castro followed with the Cubs' fourth hit of the game. The Cubs managed only five baserunners against Myers in nine innings. Tyler Colvin and Aramis Ramirez were the only two Cubs to make solid contact.

Three Cubs reached base in nine innings ... Tyler Colvin, Marlon Byrd and Starlin Castro. Brett Myers dominated the Chicago Cubs and made them look foolish once again.

The game changed on a single pitch from Andrew Cashner in the seventh. Cashner hit Humberto Quintero on a 0-2 pitch to start the inning. Before it was all said and done, the Astros scored six runs on just two hits off Cashner in the seventh ... by far the worst outing of his young career.

Lance Berkman hit his fifth career grand slam off Cashner in the seventh ... and capped another ugly inning for the Cubs in 2010. The Astros scored six runs on just two hits off Cashner. Cashner also hit a pair of batters and walked two, one intentional, in the debacle.

The Cubs lost to the Astros for the seventh time in 11 games.

With the loss, Lou's crew slipped back to nine games under .500 with a 46-55 record.