ST. LOUIS -- Hyun-Jin Ryu has been pitching more like a savvy veteran then a rookie this season. Ryu pitched seven stellar innings and got help from a three-run homer by A.J. Ellis as the red-hot Los Angeles Dodgers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-1 Thursday night. The Dodgers have won 17 of their last 18 games on the road, with the only loss coming Tuesday to St. Louis in the second game of the four-game set. Los Angeles returns home for a six-game home stand against Tampa and the New York Mets. Although he is in his first year with the Dodgers, Ryu pitched professionally in Korea for seven years before coming to Los Angeles, and it shows, according to Ellis. "This guy knows how to pitch so well," Ellis said. "He pitches to the scoreboard as well as anyone Ive caught. He knew he had a great lineup across the way that we had to face, and from the get-go, he was really locked in." Ryu (11-3) allowed one unearned run on five hits while striking out seven and walking no one. He increased his winning percentage to .786, which is the highest winning percentage for a rookie in Dodgers history. He shut down the Cardinals without his best fastball. "Most of my pitches were on point today," Ryu said through an interpreter. "The only concern I had was that my fastball, the velocity was not as high as I hoped it would be. Thanks to my other pitches, I was able to get out of the innings." Fellow Los Angeles rookie Yasiel Puig had three hits to raise his batting average to .377. Adrian Gonzalez drove in a run with a sacrifice fly and Jerry Hairston had a pinch-hit RBI single. Dodgers manager Don Mattingly was thrilled to take three of four from the Cardinals. "This is a good club over there," Mattingly said. "Just like us, they feel like they got to win every day. We feel like we have to do the same. To get three out of four from them makes you feel good." Los Angeles spoiled the first Major League start for St. Louis rookie Carlos Martinez (0-1), who was called up from Triple-A Memphis earlier in the day to make the start. Martinez lasted just 4 2-3 innings before leaving with cramps. He allowed all four runs on seven hits and three walks. "I thought overall he did a pretty nice job," said St. Louis manager Mike Matheny. "His stuffs electric; theres no question about that." Matt Holliday had two hits and scored the Cardinals only run. St. Louis fell four games back of Pittsburgh in the National League Central race. With the Dodgers leading 1-0, Holliday singled with two outs to keep the fourth inning alive. David Freese followed with a single to centre, and when Andre Ethiers throw into the infield hit the second base bag and got away, Holliday came home to even the score. Gonzalez walked with one out in the fifth and Puig followed with a single. Puig was erased by Ethiers fielders choice, but Ellis then drove Martinezs pitch into the Dodgers bullpen in left field to make it 4-1. "It was just one of those things, where youre trying to put a nice swing on something and drive a run in," Ellis said. "In that situation, sometimes youre rewarded with a little more than youre looking for." Notes: Cardinals rookie pitcher Shelby Miller, who left Wednesday nights game after two pitches when he was struck on the pitching elbow by a Carl Crawford line drive, said before the game he is ready to go. "I dont think Im going to miss a beat," Miller said. "Its less sore than if I threw 100 pitches." ... The Dodgers won the season series between the teams by a 4-3 count and now lead the all-time series between the teams 1,012-1,009. ... Martinez is the fifth rookie to make a start for St. Louis this season. Bartolo Colon Jersey . 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Ibaka equaled a career high with 20 rebounds, adding four blocked shots and 15 points as the Thunder smothered the Milwaukee Bucks offence in a 92-79 victory Saturday night. BEIJING -- Three-time world champion Patrick Chan of Canada rebounded from a subpar short program to capture the Cup of China on Saturday, while Elena Radionova won the ladies event for her first Grand Prix victory of the year.Chan, who also won Skate Canada earlier this season, was third after the mens short program, but landed a quadruple-triple toe combination, quadruple toe and two triple Axels to finish first in the free skate with a score 196.31.He had a combined total of 279.72.The program felt very methodical, said Chan, whose only misstep was a fall on a quad salchow. Even after the fall on the quad salchow, I did not panic. I got up and started doing the program as I do it at home.Jin Boyang of China, the leader after the short program, finished second with a score of 278.54, while Sergei Voronov of Russia was third.Radionova, who was second after the ladies short program, received 135.15 points for her free skate to finish with a total of 205.90.The 17-year-old Russian under-rotated on her opening triple lutz-triple toeloop combination and was deducted points on a triple flip, but completed all of her remaining jumps to win her first GP event since last years Rostelecom Cup in Moscow.My performance was not flawless today, she said. But it was the best performance of the season as for the jumps and the skating overall.Kaetlyn Osmond of Canada, the leaader after the short program, finished second overall with 196.dddddddddddd0 points and Russias Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, the 2015 world champion, was third.Ashley Wagner of the United States, the 2016 world silver medalist, finished sixth, one place ahead of compatriot Karen Chen.In the pairs, the new team of Yu Xiaoyu and Zhang Hao won the gold after scoring 131.27 points in the free skate despite a fall by Zhang on a side-by-side triple toeloop. They had a total score of 203.76.I made a big mistake on the jump, I think the last time I made that kind of mistake in competition was at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Zhang said. Maybe it was the pressure to skate in front of a home crowd.Chinas Peng Cheng and Jin Yang were second and Canadas Liubov Ilyushechkina and Dylan Moscovitch were third.Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani of the United States won the ice dance competition with 185.13 points after placing first in the free dance.Canadians Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje were second, followed by Russian skaters Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin.The Cup of China is the fifth event in the International Skating Unions Grand Prix Series. The sixth and final competition is the NHK Trophy which will be held in Sapporo, Japan, on Nov. 26-27. ' ' '