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ST. Kyle Williams Jersey . LOUIS -- When the first five San Diego Padres reached safely, it looked as if itd be a long night for rookie Lance Lynn. The St. Louis Cardinals pitcher showed veteran presence after that. Lynn came back with five scoreless innings after a three-run first Wednesday night and the Cardinals beat the San Diego Padres and former St. Louis post-season star Jeff Suppan 6-3 for a three-game sweep. At 7-1, the 25-year-old right-hander is tied with the Phillies Cole Hamels for the major league victory lead. "When you give it up, you cant keep giving it up or its going to be a long night," Lynn said. "You dont have to change your approach, you just have to grind more, concentrate more, dig deep and make a pitch when it matters." Lynn entered the season with one career victory, and didnt seem overly impressed with his total this year. "Weve got seven wins when Im pitching," he said. "Thats all that matters." Carlos Beltran hit his NL-leading 14th home run for the go-ahead runs, also his first homer in 10 days. Before missing four straight starts with a sore right knee, Beltran had homered six times in six games. "You cant expect that to happen every week, you know," Beltran said. "I just hope that I can go out there and feel good at the plate and be able to contribute. "Being able to hit home runs like that, it happens once or twice in a season." David Freese snapped a 3-for-34 slump with a homer and RBI single as the Cardinals had more than enough offence minus injured starters Lance Berkman, Jon Jay and Allen Craig. Berkman is out at least six to eight weeks with a knee injury. "Lance, we dont know whats going to happen with him, and some other guys are battling injuries," Beltran said. "But we as a team have to fight with what we have and right now were doing a pretty good job." Will Venable hit his sixth career leadoff home run and also doubled and singled for the Padres. San Diego was held to three or fewer runs for the seventh straight game and fell to a major league-worst 4-13 on the road. Suppan (2-3) laboured for 97 pitches in 4 2-3 innings, giving up five runs in his fifth start for San Diego. The 37-year-old right-hander was the 2006 NL championship series MVP for the Cardinals and was the lone pitcher on that World Series title team to win a game in each round. The St. Louis fans hadnt forgotten, giving him a warm ovation with some standing as he left the mound. "It was very nice, I was very grateful," Suppan said. "I was still in the moment of my outing, so I wasnt able to take it all in." Suppan, who spent all last year in the minors, entered 2-0 with a 2.42 ERA in four career starts in St. Louis as a member of the visiting team. Matt Holliday singled to start the fifth ahead of Beltrans first homer in 10 days. Freeses ninth of the year made it 6-3 in the seventh. "Sometimes youve just got to start over and get back to the basics and figure some things out," manager Mike Matheny said of Freese. "It looked like it worked pretty good for him today." Lynn, in the rotation for injured Chris Carpenter, recovered from a three-run first. He went six innings and worked out of frequent trouble with the Padres stranding nine runners while he was on the mound. "Well, he wiggled out of a few jams and we just couldnt get that big knock, that ball in the gap to really break his back," Padres manager Bud Black said. "And Beltran really broke our back with that home run." Victor Marte and Marc Rzepczynski worked a scoreless inning apiece and Jason Motte finished for his eighth save in 11 chances. Venable hit his third homer of the season on Lynns second pitch. The first five Padres reached safely with Chase Headleys RBI single making it 2-0. Cameron Maybin was caught stealing for just the second time in 15 chances on a pitchout to hurt San Diegos shot at a bigger inning. Jesus Guzman, San Diegos cleanup man with no homers, was hit by a pitch his first two times of the season in his first two at-bats. Skip Schumaker had an RBI double and the Cardinals added RBI singles from Freese and Matt Adams to tie it in the bottom of the first. Suppan needed 54 pitches to get through two innings, escaping damage in the second after walking Schumaker and Holliday with two outs. NOTES: Venable is a career .413 hitter (26 for 63) against the Cardinals with four RBIs. ... In 30 career starts in St. Louis, all but five for the Cardinals, Suppan is 11-5 with a 3.06 ERA. ... Headley returned after missing one game with a lower back injury. ... Eric Stults makes his second start for the Padres Thursday at New York against the Mets. The lefty allowed two runs in 6 2-3 innings against the Angels with no decision in his first start. ... 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Im broke the 72-arrow record he had set in Turkey in May by three points with a score of 699, hours before the 2012 Games official opening ceremony. He combined with Kim Bub-min and Oh Jin-hyek, smashing the record for 216 arrows with a total 2,087. PITTSBURGH -- So much for Todd Haley cramping Ben Roethlisbergers style. Showing complete mastery of his new offensive co-ordinators complex playbook, the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback picked apart the New York Jets in a 27-10 on Sunday that doubled as a reality check for both teams. Hold off on the talk about New Yorks high-powered offence. Ditto the maybe not so creaky after all Steelers. Roethlisberger completed 24 of 31 passes for 275 yards and two scores as Pittsburgh (1-1) flattened the Jets (1-1) in the second half. "Ben is one of the top in the game," said Pittsburgh wide receiver Mike Wallace, whose leaping 37-yard touchdown grab in the third quarter broke it open. "Ill ride with him against anybody." Roethlisberger hit Heath Miller for a 1-yard score to give the Steelers (1-1) the lead late in the first half, then avoided the blitz on third-and-16 early in the third quarter and found Wallace in the end zone. The Pro Bowl wide receiver let New York cornerback Antonio Cromartie fly by then snatched the ball out of the air before tucking both feet in bounds. "That was a backbreaker obviously," New York coach Rex Ryan said. "That was a killer play in the game." Isaac Redman added a late 2-yard touchdown run for Pittsburgh, which had little trouble avoiding its first 0-2 start in a decade. The Jets did nothing offensively after a pair of early scoring drives. Mark Sanchez completed just 10 of 27 passes for 138 yards and a touchdown and New York hardly looked like the offensive juggernaut that piled up points in a 48-28 opening-week blowout win over Buffalo. Tim Tebow appeared on just one drive early in the second half for the Jets, running for 22 yards on his first carry. It wasnt nearly enough against a defence that did just fine without injured stars James Harrison and Troy Polamalu. "We settled down," Steelers cornerback Ike Taylor said. "I think everybody was hyped for this game. Looking at what them boys did last week, they handled their business on offence." The sledding got significantly tougher in a place the Jets have only won once in franchise history. Sanchez completed just 6 of 17 passes in the second half, two of them in a stat-padding final drive with things well out of reach. The Jets only converted 4 of 12 third downs and didnt take a snap inside the Pittsburgh 30 on their final eight drives. "I think us not converting on third down was a big hit today," Sanchez said. "We werent our best. The throws werent there at times. The catches werent there at times, so we just need to be on the same page with that. It was a great effort by their team; we just came up short." Then again, its not like the Jets had a ton of opportunities the way the Steelers owned the clock. With Roethlisberger spreading his 24 completions to 10 different receivers against a New York secondary that badly missed injured All-Pro cornerback Darrelle Revis, the Steelers held the ball for more than 36 minutes. Not badd for an offence led by a quarterback who said during the spring that Haleys system was akin to learning a new language. Frank Gore Elite Jersey. Two weeks into the season, consider Roethlisberger fluent. "Nobody can get too upset because everybody is touching the ball," Wallace said. "Youre not just getting opportunities to go catch it, (the passes are) coming right on the money." Trailing by 10 after Wallaces score, the Jets went to Tebow, who engineered a 29-23 upset win by the Denver Broncos over the Steelers in the playoffs last January. He needed just two plays to put the Jets in Pittsburgh territory, but the drive quickly stalled. After a 6-yard loss by Shonn Greene, Sanchez ran back into the huddle. Two incompletions later, the Jets were punting and didnt take another meaningful snap in Pittsburgh territory the rest of the game. "We cant get negative plays, it always hurts when you do," Tebow said. "I felt like we had things rolling for a little ... but its a game of momentum. When you lose it, its hard to get it back" And there was little to be had for the Jets in the second half. Playing with a sense of urgency they lacked in an opening week loss to the Broncos, the Steelers put New York away with a bruising fourth-quarter drive that took more than 10 minutes and ended with Redman sprinting over right tackle for a score. The one-sided ending was far different than a mostly even first half. A meeting of two of the leagues better defences lacked considerable star power due to injuries. Pittsburgh sat Harrison (right knee) and Polamalu (strained right calf) while Revis didnt make the trip due to a concussion sustained last week. With the three perennial Pro Bowlers sidelined, the offences took advantage, trading a series of sustained scoring drives. The Jets took leads of 7-3 and 10-6 behind steady play from Sanchez. He hit Santonio Holmes for a 14-yard touchdown pass to cap a 90-yard drive then put together a 12-play, 61-yard march that was capped by Nick Folks 38-yard field goal. The Steelers climbed back in front late in the half, with Roethlisberger leading them 80 yards in 11 plays, the last one a simple lob to Miller that put the Steelers up 13-10. New York took over at its 31 after the ensuing kickoff with 57 seconds left before the break. Even though the Jets had two timeouts remaining and decent field position, they chose to sit on the ball. It would be a scene they would repeat -- only unintentionally -- in the second half. NOTES: The Steelers have won 10 straight home openers, the longest active streak in the league ... Greene left in the second quarter with a head injury but returned after halftime. He finished with 11 carries for 23 yards ... New York fullback John Conner went out with a knee injury in the third quarter and did not return ... Roethlisberger now has 27,099 career passing yards, moving him within 900 yards of the team record of 27,898 held by Terry Bradshaw ... Roethlisbergers passer rating of 125.1 is the highest given up by New York under Ryan. ' ' '