CHICAGO -- Jon Lester felt better Friday, after some rough outings. He knows he wasnt perfect in six shutout innings. A pair of pointless, useless walks, as he put it, still bothered him afterward.Not that they mattered, in the end.The Cubs posted their highest-scoring game at home this season, routing the Seattle Mariners 12-1 Friday for their third straight win.The guys swung the bats really well, Lester said. I try to always tell them, 12 runs and an air-tight defense makes a pitchers job a lot easier, so that was good today.Lester (11-4) gave up four hits and struck out seven.The lefty had lasted just 16 innings over his previous four starts, going 1-1 with a 10.13 ERA. That skid came after he had gone 9-3 with a 2.03 ERA in his first 16 starts.Johnnie Lester, I thought, pitched really well again, Cubs manager Joe Maddon said. I thought he had a really good fastball today. From the side, to me, it was obvious that his fastball had a lot of jump on it.Jason Heyward and David Ross homered as the NL Central leaders won for the 10th time in their last 15 games after a 1-9 slump. They are 9-5 since the All-Star break.Seattle lost in its first trip to Wrigley since 2007. The Mariners let infielder Luis Sardinas pitch the eighth, and he threw a perfect inning.Lester matched his win total from last season.Jon did a great job settling in after the first couple of innings there and never gave up anything, said Cubs right fielder Ben Zobrist, who doubled for the third straight game. I think all across the board, as a team, its a real feel-good win.Lester was already done when there was a 74-minute rain delay in the seventh.Mike Montgomery, traded last week from Seattle to the Cubs, pitched the final two innings. He gave up a single to Shawn OMalley in the ninth for the Mariners run.Hisashi Iwakuma (11-7) had won his last five starts, but gave up five runs and eight hits in three innings. His arm felt tight when he started warming up in the bullpen and never was on, manager Scott Servais said.He got loose and wasnt sharp, Servais said, missed in the middle of the plate a lot, obviously, against a good offensive club, and it was a rough day.The Cubs already led 5-0 when they scored six times in the sixth inning, with Anthony Rizzo hitting a three-run double.Heyward hit his first homer since June 11 and drove in three runs. He had been just 5 for 45 in his last 13 games.Kris Bryant reached base all five times he came up for the Cubs. He singled twice, doubled and walked twice. It was Bryants team-high eighth three-hit game this season.Sardinas, who played for Texas and Milwaukee the past two seasons, moved from first base to the mound and retired the Cubs on eight pitches.THE PUSHJavier Baez scored Chris Coghlans single in the second inning, then turned to see if Ross needed any guidance coming home. Plate umpire Eric Cooper also needed a clean look, and with Baez lingering outside the batters box, shoved the player out of the way.He pushed me really hard, Baez said, who added it was nothing personal.I guess everyone can laugh about it because Im not making a big deal out of it, he said.Ross scored easily.UPS AND DOWNSThe Cubs activated OF Coghlan (ribs) off the disabled list and optioned infielder Tommy La Stella to Triple-A Iowa. La Stella, who was hitting .295 in 105 at-bats with a .388 on-base percentage, didnt take the news well, according to Maddon.And he shouldnt take it well, Maddon said. Honestly, its just an unusual moment were in right now where we have so many guys. This is definitely an advocacy for a 27- or 28-man roster.La Stella had options remaining, which left him vulnerable in a crowded infield. Coghlan started in LF and the leadoff spot and opened the scoring with a two-run single in the second.NEWCOMERSeattles Guillermo Heredia made his major league debut when he went to right field in the seventh. He struck out in the eighth. The Mariners recalled him from Triple-A Tacoma before the game and optioned LHP David Rollins.TRAINERS ROOMMariners: RF Nelson Cruz returned to the lineup after fouling a ball off his shin Tuesday. He went 0 for 2 with a walk.Cubs: CF Dexter Fowler still has some soreness, Maddon said, so Heyward played center instead of right. Ben Zobrist started in right field for the second straight game.UP NEXTMariners: Its been a streaky season for LHP Wade Miley (6-8, 5.23). He lost his first two decisions, won his next six and has lost his last six starts.Cubs: Jake Arrieta (12-4, 2.76) is 0-2 with a 5.55 ERA in four July starts. He has allowed 20 earned runs over his last five starts after giving up 19 over his first 15 starts. Nike Vapormax Suomi . During the athletes parade, the 23-strong Ukrainian team was represented by a lone flagbearer in an apparent protest at the presence of Russian troops in Ukraines Crimean peninsula. Nike Vapormax Miehet .R. Smith realized how easily basketball can be taken from him, and he wasnt going to take his place in the NBA for granted anymore. http://www.vapormaxsuomi.com/vapormax-flyknit-3-ale.html . If ever they start actually putting pictures beside words in the dictionary, the Blue Jays left-handers mug will appear beside “Consistency. Nike Vapormax Tukku . U.S. District Judge Lorna G. Schofield in Manhattan agreed that lawyers on both sides could make their formal requests by Nov. 8. A hearing is scheduled for a day earlier. Jordan Siev, a lawyer for Rodriguez, wrote in a joint letter to the judge from lawyers on both sides that MLB lawyers planned to ask that the lawsuit be dismissed. Vapormax 97 Suomi . -- Matt Kuchar and Harris English ran away with the Franklin Templeton Shootout, shooting a 14-under 58 on Sunday in the final-round scramble to break the tournament course record. EASTBOURNE, England -- Feliciano Lopez of Spain won his third career title when he beat second-seeded Gilles Simon 7-6 (2), 6-7 (5), 6-0 in the Eastbourne final on Saturday, days before they meet again in the first round at Wimbledon. Meanwhile, Elena Vesnina of Russia won her second WTA title when she defeated American qualifier Jamie Hampton 6-2, 6-1 in their final. Lopez won just four of 21 break points and Simon one of six. After an exchange of breaks midway through the first set, the Spaniard failed to win a set point at 5-4 before taking the tiebreaker. In the second set it was Simon who held a set point at 5-4 ahead of winning the tiebreaker, before Lopez responded by dominating the final set. "Its definitely a good feeling to win the week before Wimbledon," Lopez said. "Conditions were so tough but we did our best. Hopefully at Wimbledon we can play a better match." Vesnina, who lost the first six finals of her career, has now won her last two after also winning in Hobart in January.dddddddddddd Hampton was playing in her first career final after upsetting No. 4-ranked Agnieszka Radwanska and No. 9-ranked Caroline Wozniacki. The windy conditions made it difficult for players to produce their best tennis, and Vesnina received a time violation warning early in the second set as she waited to serve. "It was really difficult to play today, honestly. I think we both were struggling with this wind," Vesnina said. "I was just trying to play aggressive and deep so Jamie didnt have the time to attack. So that was my game plan." Hampton was the first qualifier to reach a WTA final this year, and was attempting to become the first qualifier to win a title since Russias Ekaterina Makarova at Eastbourne in 2010. She will be ranked on Monday as the third American behind Serena Williams and Sloane Stephens. Hampton and Stephens will clash in the first round at Wimbledon. ' ' '