Infielder Luis Valbuena has agreed to a $930,000, one-year contract with the Chicago Cubs, nearly double the $495,200 he made last year. Valbuena , who avoided arbitration with Thursday's deal, has a .224 average
are second base, where injury has limited Darwin Barney to 29 games, and third base, where the Cubs have allowed Luis Valbuena to start 27 games while they have given trials to Cody Ransom and Brent Lillibridge . The Orioles are unique in that
but Mike Baxter popped out to shortstop to end the inning. Chicago then scored four times in the fourth inning. Luis Valbuena had a sacrifice fly and Welington Castillo singled in Alfonso Soriano . After Darwin Barney flied out for the second
Luis Valbuena wanted to show his former team what he could do. Valbuena homered with two out in the 11th inning to give the ..... night. "I never hit a walk-off homer before," Valbuena said with first base coach Luis Rivera acting as interpreter
take his next start in the rotation. ... Cubs 3B Luis Valbuena was out of the lineup for the third straight day after ..... right pinky finger Saturday in Washington. Sveum said Valbuena will be in the lineup Wednesday in the finale of the
said OF Dexter Fowler was getting the night off. Fowler is 2 for his last 26 and is hitting .262. ... Cubs 3B Luis Valbuena was not in the lineup for the second straight game after suffering a jammed right pinkie Saturday in Washington
scoring position in the second and third innings. By that time, Feldman's pitch count was at 61. NOTES: Cubs 3B Luis Valbuena , who jammed his right pinky finger Saturday, was available to pinch hit but did not play. ... The Montreal/Washington
arrived. With one out in the fifth, Luis Valbuena laced a shot into the right-field ..... have been a stand-up double. Valbuena tried to stretch it into a triple ..... with a teammate. ... Cubs 3B Valbuena was replaced in the bottom of the
in the ninth after a throwing error by third baseman Luis Valbuena . The Cubs have gone 68 games without a shutout since ..... Andrus doubled leading off against Rafael Dolis and Valbuena 's throw on Adrian Beltre 's grounder was well to
tough inning was the fifth. Leading 8-0, he allowed Luis Valbuena and Starlin Castro to hit two-run home runs, cutting ..... the game. In the sixth, Volquez walked Sappelt then Valbuena and Darwin Barney with two outs to load the bases and