ST. LOUIS (AP) – Albert Pujols was 4-for-5 with three RBIs and the St. Louis Cardinals beat up on All-Star starter Brad Penny in a 11-3 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday.

Anthony Reyes worked five solid innings and fellow rookie Chris Duncan had his second straight three-hit game for the Cardinals, who swept a four-game series from the Dodgers for the first time since winning a pair of doubleheaders on July 7-8, 1987.

St. Louis has won seven in a row, the team’s best streak since a nine-game run in 2004.

Penny, who worked two innings for the National League in Tuesday’s All-Star Game and struck out the side in the first, gave up six runs on 10 hits to the Cardinals in five innings. Penny (10-3) was starting for the first time in 11 days, although he worked one-third of an inning last Sunday in the final game before the break.

Olmedo Saenz homered in the second for the Dodgers, who have lost five of six. They totaled six runs in the series. Kenny Lofton had three hits and a steal.

Duncan and Pujols were a combined 6-for-6 in the first five innings, Duncan scoring on Pujols’ hits each time. Pujols had an RBI double in the first, a run-scoring single in the third that put the Cardinals ahead for good at 3-2, and an RBI double in the fifth.

Pujols has a six-game RBI streak, driving in nine runs in that span. The four-hit game was his third of the season. He was 9-for-17 in the series with a pair of homers, including the game-winner off Odalis Perez in the 14th inning on Thursday.

He added an infield hit against Perez in the seventh, making him 11-for-17 with five homers against the Dodgers reliever.

Yadier Molina capped a three-run fifth with a two-run double, his second of the game, for a 6-2 cushion. Scott Spiezio, Molina and So Taguchi each added an RBI against Perez in the seventh. John Rodriguez’s pinch-hit, two-run homer an inning later closed the scoring.

Reyes (2-3) gave up two runs on seven hits, although he piled up 92 pitches in five innings. He’s worked five innings in each of his last four starts and had been 0-3 in his last five appearances.

Notes: Dodgers IF Cesar Izturis left for Los Angeles after the game for the birth of his second child on Monday. The team begins a four-game series at Arizona on Monday and will play a man short for a few days. … Cardinals CF Jim Edmonds made a nice running catch at the warning track to rob Andre Ethier of extra bases and perhaps two RBIs for the last out in the third. … Dodgers 1B Nomar Garciaparra, hitless in the last two games after a 22-game hitting streak and 1-for-13 since the All-Star break, got a day off. … Cardinals LHP Randy Flores, who underwent an MRI exam on Friday for elbow pain, threw in the bullpen and could be cleared to pitch on Monday.

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