The San Diego Padres benefitted from Tyler Wade returning to the team after not making the roster out of Spring Training, but not in the way Padres fans would have hoped. He came in as a position player pitcher in San Diego’s 14-0 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto, Wednesday.

Wade came in to pitch in the bottom of the eighth inning with San Diego trailing Toronto 12-0 following a Dalton Varsho grand slam. The home run came off reliever Alek Jacob, who surrendered seven runs, five of which were earned, on six hits with a walk and a strikeout in 2/3 of an inning.

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After the Varsho grand slam, Jacob allowed a double to George Springer and he was replaced by Wade with no outs in the inning. Wade got a groundout for the first out of the inning and walked the next batter. He allowed a double to Addison Barger, which scored Springer to make the score, 13-0.

Ernie Clement singled, which allowed Jonatan Clase, who received the walk, to score to put the Blue Jays up, 14-0. Wade got a pop out and a force out on a ground ball to second base to end the eighth.

The Padres offense continued its inability to hit with runners in scoring position. San Diego had eight more opportunities to get a hit with a runner on second or third and failed to do so. The numbers are now 0-for-32 in their five-game losing streak.

To make things worse for the Padres, they committed four errors in the game and two of those came on consecutive batters on plays not made by Manny Machado in the bottom of the seventh.

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The inning began with San Diego trailing 2-0, but it ended after five runs scored by Toronto and the Blue Jays taking a 7-0 lead.

Machado did record two hits on offense and Luis Arraez added a double and a triple in the game. Arraez reached third base in the first inning with one out following a balk, but Machado and Merrill failed to bring him in. Arraez recorded his two-out triple in the sixth, but Machado failed to bring him in for the second time in the game and popped out to end the inning.

San Diego will try to avoid another loss and what would be back-to-back sweeps in its final game against Toronto, Thursday at 10:07 a.m.

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