CINCINNATI _ Joel Pineiro, who already had the major league lead in losses at nine, seemed headed for a 10th defeat tonight as the Cincinnati Reds pushed across two runs in the sixth inning to stretch a 1-0 lead built in the first to 3-0 against the St. Louis Cardinals.

Jerry Hairston’s third  sraight hit drove in Brandon Phillips in the sixth after Phillips had doubled home Willy Taveras.

While Pineiro was pitching respectably, as he has done most of the season, the Cardinals were doing nothing with righthander Homer Bailey, who allowed a single to Skip Schumaker to open the game and  then no hits afterward through six innings.