Peavy dominates Cardinals in 4-0 victory

Jake Peavy extended his scoreless streak to 19 innings, and the San Diego Padres got their major league-leading 16th shutout of the season in a 4-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night.

Peavy (12-5) allowed three hits in six innings, struck out five and walked two, improving to 6-0 with a NL-best 0.89 ERA in nine road starts. His 2.21 overall ERA in second in the majors behind San Diego's Chris Young (1.82).

Peavy's toughest out was Scott Rolen, who popped out with two on and two outs in the fourth in a 14-pitch at-bat and lined out in the fourth in a seven-pitch at-bat.

Cla Meredith, Heath Bell and Doug Brocail finished the five-hitter for the Padres, who lead the major leagues with a 3.50 ERA.

No other team had more than nine shutouts entering the night. Only one of the Padres' shutouts was a complete game, a five-hitter by Greg Maddux against Cincinnati on May 14.

Josh Bard hit a go-ahead single in the seventh off Anthony Reyes (1-11). Bard was 2-for-3 with a walk and is batting .388 with runners in scoring position for the Padres, who have won five of six.

A night after tying a major league record with 10 straight hits, St. Louis was blanked for the 10th time, tying Minnesota for the major league lead. Jim Edmonds was 3-for-4 for the Cardinals, giving him 1,000 hits since coming to St. Louis in 2000.

Cardinals manager Tony La Russa batted his starting pitcher eighth for the fourth straight game in an effort to boost his slumping team, which lost for the sixth time in seven games.

Reyes, who has won once since beating Detroit in last year's World Series opener, gave up one run and seven hits in seven innings. It was his longest outing in a shaky season that began with 10 consecutive losses, tying the franchise record set by Kid Carsey in 1898.

St. Louis has been blanked in three of Reyes' last five starts, totaling nine runs in those outings.

Consecutive one-out singles by Rob Mackowiak, Kevin Kouzmanoff and Bard put the Padres ahead.

Scott Hairston added a two-run triple off Jason Isringhausen in the ninth, and then scored on a wild pitch. Isringhausen entered with an 0.41 ERA in 19 home appearances, giving up one earned run in 22 innings.

Notes:@ Edmonds was 2-for-13 against Peavy before Tuesday, when he went 2-for-3 with a warning-track flyout. ... Padres C Michael Barrett missed his second game after a foul ball went off his mask on Sunday. ... Peavy leads the NL with 159 strikeouts.