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7:10 pm EDT Mon Apr 19, 2010

Lou Piniella has seen enough of the Chicago Cubs sputtering offensively. Coming off a second straight lackluster performance, Piniella is expected to make some changes to the lineup Monday night when the Cubs open a four-game series against a New York Mets team that has its own offensive problems. Everything appeared to be going just fine for Chicago with the team plating 29 runs in its first four home games, but that production has disappeared.

After leaving eight runners on base in Saturday’s 4-3 loss to Houston, the Cubs managed one extra-base hit in Sunday’s 3-2, 10-inning loss to the Astros. Marlon Byrd had three hits and drove in the only two runs Sunday for Chicago, which is 3 for 14 with runners in scoring position the last two games after batting .342 in such situations in the previous four.

Part of the problem has come from the top of the order with leadoff hitter Ryan Theriot going 3 for 19 in the last four games. Piniella said he will move Theriot to No. 8 in the batting order and shift Byrd, who is 6 for 9 with three doubles and three RBIs against left-handers this season, to the leadoff spot when the Cubs face left-handed starters.

This new lineup is expected to make its debut at Citi Field, as the Mets are sending lefty Jonathon Niese to the mound. Niese gave up five runs, nine hits and hit two batters in Wednesday’s 6-5, 10-inning loss to Colorado after allowing three runs and eight hits in six innings of a 3-1 loss to Florida on April 8. This will be Niese’s 11th major league start, and second versus Chicago. Against the Cubs on Sept. 22, 2008, Niese gave up a career-worst six runs and seven hits in three innings of a 9-5 loss, his first big league defeat.

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