(My Sportsbook) - The Chicago Cubs used excellent pitching and power hitting to win Saturday's matchup with the Florida Marlins. There's a chance the team will get both of those qualities when Carlos Zambrano participates in this afternoon's finale of a four-game series between the clubs from Wrigley Field.

Zambrano, a recipient of the National League's Silver Slugger award honoring the top-hitting pitcher in two of the past three seasons, showed off his two- way skills in Chicago's 11-3 rout of Arizona this past Tuesday. The excitable Cubs hurler held the Diamondbacks to three runs over seven solid innings on the mound and went 3-for-4 with a homer and two RBI at the plate.

The three-time All-Star, a career .240 hitter with 17 home runs to his credit, has been rather ordinary as a pitcher so far in 2009. Zambrano has a 4.64 earned run average through his first five starts and allowed three or more runs in all but one of those outings.

The native Venezuelan will be facing a Florida squad he has historically fared very well against. Zambrano is 4-1 with a 3.05 ERA in nine regular-season starts against the Marlins and 2-0 with a 2.31 ERA over five matchups with the Fish at Wrigley Field.

Zambrano will have a tough act to follow in teammate Ted Lilly, who also made a big impact as both a pitcher and hitter in Saturday's 6-1 triumph over the Marlins.

Lilly (3-2) limited Florida to one run on five hits and racked up a season- high 10 strikeouts without a walk over the first eight innings to lead Chicago to a second straight win in this series. The veteran southpaw also delivered a two-run double in the third inning that staked the Cubs to a commanding 3-0 lead.

Ryan Theriot, who smacked a go-ahead grand slam in Friday's 8-6 victory over Florida, had a two-run homer in yesterday's contest and finished 2-for-5 for the Cubs, while Derrek Lee added a solo blast on the afternoon.

Marlins starter Anibal Sanchez (1-3) served up both homers and was tagged for six runs on nine hits in just four innings of work.

Cody Ross accounted for Florida's only run with a solo homer off Lilly in the fifth inning. The loss was the ninth in the past 12 games for the Marlins, and the team has gone 3-6 on the road during that span.

However, Florida has won in seven of its past 11 visits to Wrigley Field .

Former Cubs farmhand Ricky Nolasco will take the ball for Florida this afternoon. The right-hander produced a 15-8 record during a breakthrough 2008 campaign, but he's struggled greatly through the opening month of this season.

Nolasco is coming off a five-inning no decision against the New York Mets on Tuesday in which he surrendered four runs and walked three. The effort raised his season ERA to an unwanted 6.92, and he gave up at least four runs in four of his five April starts.

The 26-year-old was selected by the Cubs in fourth round of the 2001 draft and traded by Chicago to Florida prior to the 2006 season as part of a deal that sent outfielder Juan Pierre to the Cubs. His first major league victory came against Chicago at Wrigley Field in a relief role on April 26, 2006.

Nolasco also defeated the Cubs in his lone start against his one-time organization. That also came in 2006, with the California native firing seven innings of one-run ball in a 9-1 Marlins' win.

Before Sunday's game, the Cubs will retire the No. 31 uniform number that was worn by two of the franchise's most accomplished pitchers, Hall of Famer Ferguson Jenkins and four-time NL Cy Young Award winner Greg Maddux.

Jenkins won 167 games over 10 seasons with the Cubs and earned the NL's Cy Young Award in 1971. Maddux captured the honor while with Chicago in 1992 and recorded 133 of his 355 career victories in a Cubs uniform.