PITTSBURGH—The Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates lost a wasted evening and a scheduled day off. Zach Duke lost a chance to match up against Stephen Strasburg.The Cubs-Pirates game finally was postponed due to unplayable field conditions along the warning track after a rain delay of 3 hours, 12 minutes on Wednesday.Heavy rain that fell for about two hours overwhelmed PNC Park’s drainage system, causing standing water more than a foot deep to accumulate on the outfield track from foul line to foul line.The game will be made up at 12:35 p.m. Monday. Both teams are off Thursday, but the Pirates already had played the maximum 20 games in 20 days allowed under MLB’s labor agreement.Even though both teams play in the NL Central, the Cubs weren’t scheduled to visit Pittsburgh again this season.It hadn’t rained for more than an hour when the game was called off, after managers Lou Piniella and John Russell, the umpires and various Pirates executives, including president Frank Coonelly, watched the grounds crew struggle to move the pools of water.With more heavy rain expected to start falling later in the evening, the game was called off even though the infield and outfield appeared to be playable. The PNC Park outfield and infield drainage systems are designed to handle monsoon-type rains, and the only visible standing water on the field was created when the infield tarp was removed in left field. But the rain was so heavy for so long, the water pooled on the warning tracks, where there is no drainage.Duke, who has lost eight consecutive decisions against the Cubs, will be pushed back to start Friday against San Francisco, with Paul Maholm pitching Saturday and Ross Ohlendorf on Sunday.Because of the rainout, Duke won’t make his scheduled start Tuesday against Strasburg in the Nationals’ rookie’s highly anticipated major league debut.

His left eye swollen, Vladimir Guerrero looked as if he had just gone 12 rounds.He insisted, he’s fine.The Texas Rangers are looking pretty good, too, at the moment even if their star is a bit banged up.Matt Treanor homered and drove in a career-high four runs, and the Rangers beat the White Sox 9-5 on Wednesday after losing Guerrero to an eye injury during batting practice.Guerrero, the designated hitter, was scratched from the lineup after a ball he hit ricocheted off the top of the cage and struck him above the left eye. X-rays taken at a hospital showed no structural damage, and the eight-time All-Star insisted through an interpreter he could have pinch-hit if needed, no matter how bad he looked.He said his vision is fine and laughed when someone asked what round they stopped the fight.Even without Guerrero, Texas still managed to pound Gavin Floyd (2-6). Treanor capped a three-run first with a two-run bases-loaded double, and led off the third with his third homer. He was also robbed in the sixth when right fielder Carlos Quentin raced back for a lunging catch on his sacrifice fly.Texas’ Michael Young had three hits, including doubles in the first two innings, and drove in three runs while scoring two. Hamilton had his second straight three-hit game, and the Rangers had 12 hits after getting 19 the previous night in a 9-6 win.Paul Konerko hit two home runs off Scott Feldman late in the game, giving him 16 this season. He went deep twice at Texas on April 29 and has 26 multi-homer games in his career.For Konerko, this was just another sickening loss.Feldman (3-5) got his second win in three starts, allowing five runs and eight hits in a season-high eight innings.Floyd lasted 2 2/3 innings, allowing eight hits and six runs. It was the sixth time an opponent scored at least five runs against him, and the Rangers had their way even though they didn’t have their slugger.The injury to Guerrero, who’s batting .335 with 12 homers and is second in the majors with 44 RBI, set a bad tone, but the AL West leaders were able to get by for at least one night.

NOTES—With Guerrero out, LF Hamilton moved into cleanup spot with Young going from 3B to DH and Andres Blanco starting at 3B and batting eighth…….RHP Tommy Hunter is scheduled to make his first start of the season against Tampa Bay on Saturday, after being slowed in spring training with a left oblique strain and sent to Triple-A Oklahoma City…..Bobby Jenks, who strained his calf running on Friday, worked the ninth in his first appearance in a week. “Everything’s good,” he said before the game. And manager Ozzie Guillen reiterated his role wasn’t about to change even though he entered Wednesday’s game with a 6.35 ERA.Piniella said his pitching plans were indefinite and would be discussed on the plane ride to Houston, where the Cubs open a three-game series Friday. One problem is Ted Lilly would be in line to face the Pirates for the fourth time this season on Monday, which Piniella wants to avoid.Carlos Zambrano, the former ace who shifted to the bullpen early in the season, will make his first start since April 20 in Houston. He had been scheduled to pitch Thursday.A three-city trip for the Cubs now becomes a four-city journey, from Pittsburgh to Houston back to Pittsburgh and then to Milwaukee for a three-game series starting Tuesday.Before the game was called, one lightning bolt rattled the upper deck, causing fans to move en masse to lower levels. Lightning crashes periodically shook PNC Park, where the Pirates had not lost a game to weather this season.The Pirates lead the season series 7-1, winning all five games played in Pittsburgh.