The Padres had everything lined up to snap their six-game losing streak.

Michael King dominated the Dodgers through six innings, shutting down Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman while carrying a 3-0 lead into the seventh. Jackson Merrill homered, Gavin Sheets and Xander Bogaerts delivered clutch RBI hits, and San Diego looked ready to even the series.

Then everything unraveled.

Adrián Morejón surrendered a game-changing grand slam to Teoscar Hernández, the Dodgers stole another one-run game from the Padres, and San Diego’s losing streak reached seven games.

The numbers are becoming impossible to ignore.

• 7 straight losses

• 51 runs allowed over the last five games

• Another late bullpen collapse

• Another one-run loss to the Dodgers

We’ll break down Michael King’s outstanding outing, Morejón’s disastrous seventh inning, Jackson Merrill’s continued emergence, the bullpen struggles, Craig Stammen’s decisions, and whether this team is running out of time to stop the bleeding.

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The Padres dug themselves an early hole after a disastrous fifth inning and couldn’t complete a late comeback, falling 5-3 to the Toronto Blue Jays in the opener of the final series before the All-Star break.

Xander Bogaerts gave San Diego an early spark with a two-run homer in the first inning, but Toronto answered with five unanswered runs, highlighted by Okamoto’s three-run blast in the fifth that proved to be the difference.

The Padres finally showed some life in the ninth as Luis Campusano, Fernando Tatis Jr. and Jackson Merrill strung together hits to cut the deficit to two, but the rally ended with the tying run stranded.

JP Sears pitched well early before running into trouble, while the bullpen settled things down after the fifth. The offense, however, disappeared for seven innings before making things interesting at the very end.

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* Bogaerts continues to swing a hot bat

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* What this loss means heading into the All-Star break

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The Padres answered in a BIG way.

After dropping the series opener, San Diego’s biggest stars delivered exactly the response this team needed. Manny Machado homered TWICE, Fernando Tatis Jr. crushed a 474-foot missile and finished with three hits and three RBI, Jackson Merrill launched a three-run homer, and Walker Buehler battled through early traffic to earn the win as the Padres rolled past the Braves 8-3 in Atlanta.

The offense finally looked like the offense everyone has been waiting for, while the bullpen once again locked things down behind another quality effort from the pitching staff.

Can this be the game that sparks a second-half run?

⚾ Machado: 2 HR

⚾ Tatis Jr.: 3 H, 3 RBI, 474-foot HR

⚾ Merrill: 3-run HR

⚾ Walker Buehler earns the win

⚾ Padres even the series

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