Fukudome's out of his funk, going 4 for 5 against Indians

Cubs manager Lou Piniella was happy to welcome Kosuke Fukudome back into the hitting fold Saturday.

In the Cubs' 6-5, 13-inning victory over Cleveland, Fukudome went 4-for-5 with a double and a walk. He singled in the 13th to start the rally. Fukudome snapped an 0-for-23 skid.

"I don't know, but he was stroking the ball really, really well," Piniella said. "Nice quick swing. He stayed behind the ball well, used the whole field to hit with. Really, really a nice day, probably as nice a day as he's had in awhile now. So hopefully, this will get him going."

Player and coach: A look at the stats reveals that shortstop Ryan Theriot has stood his walks-to-strikeouts ratio on its head, and not in a way he or his hitting coach would like.

Last season, Theriot walked 73 times and struck out 58 in 580 at-bats. So far this year, he has 18 walks and 41 strikeouts in 250 at-bats.

"This is true, and we've talked about that already," said coach Von Joshua, who joined the Cubs from Class AAA Iowa last week. "He's concerned about that. That's way, way too many for (Theriot).

"Just watching the games on TV when I was at Iowa, it looks like he's in too much of a pull mode. We were watching that game when he hit that ball to right field the other day. 'That's you.' That's what I try to tell him. 'We worked too hard in the minor leagues with you to develop that swing to get you here. All of a sudden, you just can't expect us to forget about that swing.'"

Theriot hit 5 of his 6 homers in May. Manager Lou Piniella said he wanted Theriot to "drive" the ball more. Joshua is on board with that, but he doesn't want players to misunderstand the message.

"He called me, and I can't say exactly what I said to him on the air, but I said, 'Just because you hit a few home runs, don't think you're a home run hitter,'" Joshua said of Theriot. "I think they misunderstand what Lou says, 'You've got to drive the ball.' That's not Lou saying you've got to go up there and try to hit home runs all the time. But, 'When you get your pitch, juice it.'"

Marmol aid: Carlos Marmol suffered a blown save in the seventh inning when he relieved Sean Marshall, who gave up a bloop single to Travis Hafner loading the bases.

Marmol struck out Jamey Carroll but walked Jhonny Peralta. Marmol has pitched 322/3 innings and has given up 33 walks.

"He'll be sharp, and then he'll just throw a couple bad pitches, and it'll lead to a couple more," said pitching coach Larry Rothschild. "Instead of stopping it, he's kind of letting it go on. In the past, even when he's down in the count, he's been able to come back a lot. I think it's more location with the breaking ball than it is anything else, being able to throw it for strikes as often as he has in the past.

"The aggressiveness has always been something he brings to the table almost all of the time, and he's kind of got to get back to that."