SAN DIEGO – A game that went off-course early ended with more frustration for the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday.

In between they rallied with a pair of game-changing home runs from Jonatan Clase and Vladimir Guerrero Jr., but the end result was still another loss for the 45-50 Blue Jays, who are now 1.5 games behind the Mariners for the third American League wild card spot but now fourth in the division behind the surging Red Sox.

Starter Trey Yesavage was as wild as he’s ever been in the majors, walking the first three hitters he faced, but Padres starter Walker Buehler was equally ineffective, walking four Blue Jays and allowing four early runs to let the visitors back into the game.

The Padres started so poorly that the crowd of 40,561 spent much of the early part of the game booing their team. If this game had been played in Toronto, Blue Jays fans........

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