Cubs turn on the power Lee passes Banks with two homers in rare offensive show

cubs 14, marlins 3

Timely hitting has been the Cubs' albatross all season.

Perhaps the pressure of trying to stay in the playoff hunt was thereason.

With that pressure deflated, the Cubs exploded Sunday with theirsecond-highest scoring total of the season against their nemeses fromthe 2003 National League Championship Series, the Florida Marlins.The Cubs' 14-3 victory in front of 38,763 at Wrigley Field preventeda sweep in the three-game series and capped off a celebratoryatmosphere on the day Ryne Sandberg's No. 23 was retired and DerrekLee passed Ernie Banks for the most home runs in one season by a Cubsfirst baseman.

We didn't want to get swept," said …