NATIONAL LEAGUE ROUNDUP : Cardinals Strand Record 16, Lose to Phillies, 4-0

The St. Louis Cardinals set a major league record by stranding 16 runners without scoring, losing to David West and three Philadelphia relievers, 4-0, Tuesday night at St. Louis.

“It seemed like 100 sitting in the dugout,” Cardinals manager Joe Torre said. “You see those guys at the end of the inning, they’re throwing their helmets in, you count the helmets. That’s a lot of people.”

The previous mark for runners left on base in a shutout loss was 15, most recently by Kansas City against Detroit in 1975. The NL record was 14, most recently by the Phillies against Montreal in 1971.

Ricky Jordan’s double in the ninth inning snapped a scoreless tie as the Phillies won for the 10th time in 12 games. Pete Incaviglia added a three-run home run.

West, Bobby Munoz, Heathcliff Slocumb (4-0) and Doug Jones combined on a seven-hitter. The Cardinals left the bases loaded in the fourth and sixth innings.

San Diego 6, San Francisco 3--Phil Clark hit a three-run homer in the first inning to back Joey Hamilton in his major league debut, and the Padres beat the Giants at San Diego for their third consecutive victory.

The Padres, who on Sunday ended a club-record 13-game losing streak, had a four-run first inning for the second straight game. The Giants have lost six consecutive games and eight of their last nine.

Hamilton (1-0) was working on three days’ rest after being promoted from triple-A Las Vegas. San Diego released 1989 NL Cy Young Award winner Mark Davis to make room for Hamilton.

Bryan Hickerson (2-4) was pitching on only two days’ rest because of Bill Swift’s arm tightness.

Montreal 11, Florida 1--Darrin Fletcher drove in a career-high five runs and Butch Henry pitched 6 2/3 shutout innings, leading the Expos past the Marlins at Miami.

Montreal tied a National League record with four sacrifice flies, including two by Fletcher, who also hit a three-run double in the ninth.

There have been four sacrifice flies in a game seven other times in the NL.

Houston 8, Atlanta 0--Doug Drabek pitched a three-hitter for his seventh consecutive victory and had three hits himself as the Astros roughed up Tom Glavine at Atlanta.

Drabek (7-1) matched his 1988 career-best streak.

The Astros, winning for the fifth time in six games, got to Glavine (5-4) for a run in the third inning on two-out singles by Drabek, James Mouton and Steve Finley. Mouton had four hits.

New York 4, Pittsburgh 2--Jose Vizcaino’s two-out single gave New York the lead in a three-run ninth inning and Bobby Bonilla and Ryan Thompson homered as the Mets won at Pittsburgh.

Bobby Jones (5-4) pitched eight strong innings.

Colorado 11, Cincinnati 7--Walt Weiss had four hits and Andres Galarraga and Charlie Hayes each had three as the Rockies got 17 hits to beat the Reds in Denver.

Red third baseman Tony Fernandez and Manager Davey Johnson were ejected by umpire Wally Bell in the eighth inning after arguing a third-strike call.