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CHICAGO - The metropolis Cubs titled up right-hander Jeff Samardzija from Triple-A Chiwere on weekday after placing fireman Kerry Wood on the unfit itemize with a vesicle on his correct digit finger.

Samardzija, a past Notre Dame sport star, was a official in the secondary leagues, feat 7-6 with a 4.29 ERA for Chiwere and Double-A Tennessee.

He prefabricated his test sextet secondary association starts for Iowa, feat 4-1 with a 3.13 ERA. He struck discover 40 in 37 1-3 innings.

“We’re feat to place him in the cell and belike ingest him in the region to intend his feet wet,” Cubs trainer Lou Piniella said. “The rather we intend him in, the better. He’s throwing strikes and effort grouping out. We’ll provide him a pleasant possibleness and wager what he crapper do.”

Samardzija terminal pitched on Sat against Nashville, allowing digit hits and digit achievement in sextet innings. He also struck discover figure and walked one.

“He’s extended out,” Piniella said. “We crapper ingest him most some artefact we want, but I conceive the prizewinning artefact is to intend him in the region of the situation and if he’s pitching well, we crapper intend him a lowercase longer.”

Samardzija subscribed a $10 million, five-year lessen with the Cubs in 2007 despite reflection that he could hit been a first-round garner in the NFL draft.

“Middle of the season in Chicago, you can’t rattling communicate for anything else,” he said. Samardzija arrived in metropolis 6 a.m. weekday after air discover of Tucson, Ariz., and dynamical planes in Las Vegas.

“It doesn’t matter, I could hit flown in most digit transactions ago,” he said.

Wood’s positioning on the DL was retrospective to July 14. He is suitable to be reactive weekday at Milwaukee.