MILWAUKEE — The San Diego Padres won another low-scoring game.

They did not do it with small ball this time.

It was one long ball that won it for them.

Manny Machado’s home run in the seventh inning, just the third hit by either team to that point in the game, was the difference in a 1-0 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.

The victory was also powered by another group-effort shutout, this one finished off by five relievers after 5 1/3 innings by rookie Ryan Bergert at the start.

As they head into a series that begins Monday at Petco Park against the Los Angeles Dodgers, who they will trail by no more than a game in the National League West, the Padres have won four of their past five series and split the other.

Every one of their 10 victories in that span has come by a margin of no more than two runs, and Sunday was their MLB-leading 23rd such victory this season.

It was also their MLB-leading ninth victory when scoring no more than two runs and their MLB-best 12th shutout victory.

Machado’s blast off Brewers left-hander Rob Zastryzny was the longest of his 10 this season.

His homer leading off the seventh was the middle of the Padres’ three hits, the same total with which the Brewers finished.

Bergert became the third Padres starting pitcher in the three-game series to finish his day without allowing a run.

The 25-year-old right-hander made it an out deep in the sixth inning before leaving two men on for Yuki Matsui, who ended the inning with two strikeouts.

Sean Reynolds and Wandy Peralta got through the seventh. Jason Adam survived a pair of two-out singles in the eighth. Robert Suarez worked around a two-out single to extend his MLB-leading saves total to 21.

Neither team had a hit until Rhys Hoskins dropped a one-out single on a soft line drive into left field with one out in the bottom of the fifth inning.

Tyler Wade began the sixth inning with a single he lined softly to right field, ending the threat of a no-hitter by Brewers starter Freddy Peralta.

Wade moved to second base on Martín Maldonado’s sacrifice bunt before being tagged out trying to advance on a ground-ball by Fernando Tatis Jr.

A groundout by Luis Arraez ended the sixth, and Zastryzny replaced him to start the seventh.

Bergert set down the Brewers’ first seven batters on 24 pitches before walking Caleb Durbin and falling behind 3-0 to Joey Ortiz.

But he threw two strikes and then got out of the inning when Ortiz lined a ball down the right field line that Fernando Tatis Jr. ran 39 feet to catch, and then threw to first base to double up Durbin, who was running on the pitch.

He got through the fourth inning on 10 pitches and was at 47 pitches and had faced the minimum 12 batters to that point.

He struck out William Contreras to start the fifth before walking Sal Frelick on four pitches and yielding single to Hoskins that moved Frelick to third.

With Matsui warming up in the bullpen, Bergert won two seven-pitch battles to get out of the inning, striking out Jake Bauers and getting Durbin on a grounder to third base.

He began the sixth with a groundout, as well, before walking the next two batters.

Matsui came in and struck out Christian Yelich before walking Contreras to load the bases and leaving them that way when he struck out Frelick.

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