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Final Score: Cincinnati 2 - Chicago Cubs 3

Chicago, IL (Sports Network) - Carlos Zambrano was brilliant on the hill and helped his own cause with a home run as Chicago edged Cincinnati, 3-2, in the rubber match of a three-game set at Wrigley Field.

Pitching with a cracked molar, Zambrano (13-5) allowed just one run on six hits in seven innings for the NL Central-leading Cubs, who have won three of their last four games and eight of 10.

"(Zambrano) threw well," Cubs manager Lou Piniella said. "His command could have been a little better but he pitched seven innings of one-run ball and hit a home run. That's a pretty good day."

Mark DeRosa added a homer and Ryan Theriot finished 2-for-4 for Chicago.

Jay Bruce and Joey Votto both homered for the Reds, who have dropped four of their past six encounters.

Josh Fogg (2-6) surrendered three runs on four hits in four innings en route to the loss and is now in the midst of a six-outing winless skid.

"Fogg wasn't throwing the ball badly, but when you are facing a guy like Zambrano, you can't give him too much of a lead," Reds manager Dusty Baker said. "When you have an opportunity to score runs, you have to take it."

The Cubs grabbed the early lead with a run in the first. Alfonso Soriano led off with a walk and quickly went to third on Theriot's single before crossing the plate when Derrek Lee grounded into a 6-4-3 double play.

Chicago added a run in the second after DeRosa turned on a Fogg fastball and crushed it over the wall in left for a solo homer, his 15th of the year.

Zambrano made it a 3-0 game in the third by leading off the frame with his fourth homer of the season.

The Reds finally got to Zambrano in the sixth after Bruce belted a one-out solo homer to right-center, his 13th on the year.

Votto tightened things up even further with two outs in the eighth when he crushed a Carlos Marmol offering onto Sheffield Avenue to make it a one-run game, 3-2.

After Marmol managed to get Edwin Encarnacion to line out to end the eighth, Kerry Wood came on to record a 1-2-3 ninth to secure things and pick up his 26th save for the Cubs.