By Jeremy Kahn

SAN FRANCISCO-With the wild card already clinched, the San Francisco Giants were attempting to hold onto the slim chance of them hosting the wild card game.

Unfortunately, that will not happen, as the San Diego Padres scored three runs in the top of the sixth inning to chase Ryan Vogelsong and defeated the Giants by the final score of 4-1 before 41,927, the 325th consecutive regular season sellout at AT&TPark.

With the loss, the Giants will play the Wild Card game on Wednesday either at PNCPark in Pittsburgh against the Pittsburgh Pirates, or at Busch Stadium in St. Louis against the St. Louis Cardinals.

Either way, the second place finisher in the National League Central will host the game with the Giants being the road team.

Seth Smith drove in what turned out to be the winning run, as he doubled off the garage on the top of the arcade in right field to score Jedd Gyorko, who doubled to left field and send Yasmani Grandal, who walked following Gyorko’s double went to third base.

Rene Rivera then singled to centerfield, as his broken bat landed in the seats behind the Giants dugout to score Grandal and Smith and Rivera took third on the throw to the plate.

That was the end of the evening for Vogelsong, as he went 5.1 innings, allowing four runs (three earned), allowing six hits, walking two and striking out five.

Vogelsong ended the 2014 season with an earned run average of 3.996 (which rounds up to 4.00-thank you Henry Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle for the tidbit), after last year’s 5.73 earned run average.

George Kontos came onto replace Vogelsong, and struck out Alexei Amarista, then after an intentional walk to Rymer Liriano, Kontos was able to retire his counterpart Ian Kennedy on a groundball to Brandon Crawford.

Kennedy went seven innings, allowing one run (not earned) on four hits, walking two and striking out six, as he ends the 2014 season with a record of 13-13.

Grandal drove in the Padres first run of the game in the top of the first inning, as he singled in Wil Venable, who singled and then went to second on an Andrew Susac passed ball.

Brandon Crawford tied up the game in the bottom of the second inning, as he hit a sacrifice fly that scored Brandon Belt, with what to be proved the only Giants run of the evening against the Padres pitching staff.

Since this is the final Friday night game of the season, the annual Willie MAC award was given out and the recipient of the award is Pitcher Madison Bumgarner, who ended the season with a record of 18-10 and an earned run average of 2.98.

Past winners such as Larry Herndon, Darrell Evans, Bob Brenly, Mike Krukow, Chris Speier, Dave Dravecky, Robby Thompson, Mike Felder, Shawon Dunston, J.T. Snow, Jeff Kent, Marvin Benard, Mark Gardner, Marquis Grissom and Andres Torres were in attendance.

Joining the former Giants on the field were current Giants players Matt Cain, Vogelsong, Buster Posey and Hunter Pence were also included in the award presentation.

Joaquin Benoit pitched a perfect ninth inning to notch his 11th save of the season.