MESA, Ariz. — The Chicago Cubs will retire the No. 31 worn by both Ferguson Jenkins and Greg Maddux.

They two star right-handed pitchers will be honored at a ceremony May 3 before a game against Florida at Wrigley Field.

It will be the fifth number retired by the Cubs, joining No. 14 (Ernie Banks), No. 26 (Billy Williams), No. 10 (Ron Santo) and No. 23 (Ryne Sandberg).

Jenkins, elected to the Hall of Fame in 1991, and Maddux, who won 355 games before retiring in December, are the first pitchers in Cubs history to have their numbers retired.

Jenkins retired before the 1984 season. When Maddux broke in with the Cubs two years later, he was given No. 31. Turns out Maddux became one of the greatest, too.

“Both of us had I think brilliant careers,” Jenkins said. “He won a Cy Young as a Cub and I did it, also. I think it was a productive number.”

Maddux said he didn’t give much thought to having his number retired during his first stint with Chicago from 1986-1992 but acknowledged he did during his second stretch.

“I thought it was pretty cool. I always liked seeing Ryno’s number up there because I had played with him,” Maddux said.

Jenkins went 167-132 with a 3.20 ERA in 401 appearances during two stints with the Cubs. He was a three-time NL All-Star (1967, 1971 and 1972) and won the 1971 NL. Cy Young Award after going 24-13. During his 19-year career that also included stops with the Phillies, Rangers and Red Sox, he had a 284-226 record with a 3.34 ERA. He pitched 267 complete games.

Maddux won 133 games for the Cubs and earned the first of four consecutive NL Cy Young Awards with the Cubs in 1992, when he went 20-11 with a 2.18 ERA. He then signed with Atlanta.

MESA, Ariz. — Tim Lincecum gave up a first-pitch homer to Alfonso Soriano and it didn’t get much better after that.

The reigning NL Cy Young Award winner allowed four runs and seven hits in 3 2-3 innings before the San Francisco Giants recovered for an 8-6 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday in front of a HoHoKam Park spring training-record crowd of 13,024.

Micah Hoffpauir tripled in a run and scored on Mike Fontenot’s single in the Cubs’ three-run first inning against Lincecum, who walked four. Lincecum had not given up an earned run in three previous spring starts.

Cubs right-hander Ryan Dempster pitched five scoreless innings to drop his spring ERA to 1.38. He gave up four singles and struck out four.

MIAMI — United States manager Davey Johnson was right to have reservations about playing Adam Dunn at first base.

The desperation defensive deployment backfired Wednesday night in the World Baseball Classic when Dunn made a wild throw that led to four unearned runs and Venezuela won Group 2 by beating the Americans 10-6 to conclude second-round play in Miami.

Both teams had already qualified for the semifinals this weekend in Los Angeles.