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Cubs go back-to-back in lopsided win over Astros

Published Jul. 31, 2009 1:21 a.m. ET

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Kevin Hart won the game and got traded.

Russ Ortiz lost it and got released.

That was the strange aftermath to the Chicago Cubs' 12-3 victory over the Houston Astros on Thursday.

"It's a little weird, a little different," Hart said while still wearing a Cubs' sweat shirt in a mostly empty clubhouse after his former teammates had rushed off to the airport.

Hart won his third straight start and moments after the game was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates in a five-player deal that landed John Grabow and Tom Gorzelanny with the Cubs.

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