The San Diego Padres are on a roll since holding a team meeting last week.
Kim Ha-seong homered and Mike Clevinger had a strong outing for the Padres, who shut down the Cardinals 5-0 Tuesday night.
Kim homered to left off Adam Wainwright (11-10) with two outs in the fourth, his 10th, for a 3-0 lead. Wainwright allowed four runs and six hits in six innings, walked two and struck out one.
Cardinals RHP Miles Mikolas (11-12, 3.46 ERA) and Padres LHP Blake Snell (7-9, 3.85) are scheduled to start Wednesday night in the middle game of the series, 7:45 with the pregame and the first pitch at 8:40 on KIRX.