Chicago Cubs lose a 10-2 snoozefest to Miami Marlins on a rare Friday night home game

The Miami Marlins came into Wrigley Field Friday night with one of the least feared offenses in baseball.

They left with a 10-2 win over the Chicago Cubs, ending the suspense early with a five-run third inning off starter Zach Davies and turning the night into a snoozefest.

The Cubs have lost four of their last five since sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley last weekend, and haven’t scored without the benefit of a home run since the last homestand.

Both of their runs Friday came on solo homers from Joc Pederson, including a leadoff home run in the first.

Adam Duvall’s grand slam off Davies, following a bases-loaded walk, was the blow that put the Cubs on their heels — and took the life out of a crowd of 32,505 on a rare Friday night home game.

Davies was coming off two starts in which he threw six-plus innings while allowing no earned runs in wins over the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals. But the Marlins waited on Davies’ breaking stuff and the Cubs starter didn’t adjust.

“It was just one of those things that you can see what their approach is, but it’s hard as a pitcher to believe that it’s a full lineup type of approach,” Davies said. “It seemed as if they were sitting off-speed pretty much the whole time.

“So going through each hitter, you still want to pitch to your strengths. That for me is the changeup. Looking back on it, it seemed like they really wanted to hit that pitch that was in the zone.”

Davies (4-4) had allowed only four home runs entering the start, but served up a pair Friday — the slam to Duvall and a three-run shot to third baseman Jon Berti in the sixth. He allowed a career-high eight earned runs over six innings, raising his ERA to 4.66.

Davies was hit in the leg by a liner in the third, before it all started to fall apart. He said the leg “tightened up” but added he wanted to continue and thought he did a “pretty good job outside of that (third) inning.”

Manager David Ross said he asked Davies every inning after the third if he was OK, and every time Davies told him he “felt good.”

Pederson’s second home run in the third made it a 5-2 game, but Berti’s three-run homer in the sixth was too much for the Cubs to overcome.

“The mistake to Berti that ended up pushing the game out of hand, I know that sucks, but you never want to come out of the game and leave your bullpen with along game like that,” Davies said.

Duvall added a two-run homer off Dan Winkler to cap the rout.

Rookie Cody Poteet and three relievers held the Cubs to four hits. The Cubs have scored 11 runs in their last five games, all coming on eight home runs.

“I don’t really care how we score runs,” Ross said. “It’s that we win games and that we do score. At times you’re going to go through moments when you hit home runs … Just got to move the baseball around, make a little more contact.”

The Cubs had emerged from their early-season hitting cocoon, bringing a season-high .241 average into June after falling to .203 on April 28. But despite the warmer weather and better hitting conditions, they’ve dropped back down to .228, ranking 27th in the majors by becoming dependent on the long ball.

“It’s a long season,” Pederson said. “I think we just won a lot of games in row led by our offense. If we did that all season, we’d win 120 games. That’s not realistic.”

Jake Arrieta gets the call for the Cubs Saturday in the second game of the three-game series.

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