San Diego Padres starting pitcher Travis Wood throws a pitch to a San Francisco Giants batter during the first inning of a baseball game Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Orlando Ramirez)

 By Jeremy Harness

 At the beginning of this season, it was unfathomable that a team that made the playoffs the year before would lose 100 games the very next year. Sadly for Giants fans, that’s what appears to be happening to their team in 2017.

 That possibility got heightened a bit Wednesday night, as the Giants were shut out by the San Diego Padres, 5-0, at San Diego’s Petco Park, as they saw their record drop to 53-82 with a full month to go in the regular season.

 Padres starting pitcher Travis Wood got things started for the Padres in the third inning, as he touched up his counterpart, Ty Blach, with a solo homer over the wall in left-center. Jose Pirela added yet another solo shot three innings later, as his shot landed in the stands in left field.

 Later that inning, the hinges came off for the Giants. Two more runs came across in the sixth, one of them coming on a wild pitch and the other coming from a single by Austin Hedges that brought in Jabari Blash to give San Diego a commanding 4-0 lead.

 Blash completed the scoring two innings later with a single that scored Wil Myers.

 When it was all said and done, Blach was charged three of those runs on five hits, walking two and striking out one in seeing his ERA go up to 4.68 and seeing his record drop to 8-11. Meanwhile, Wood pitched 4 1/3 innings of shutout ball and gave up six hits. He walked four and struck out one, but he didn’t stick around long enough to get the win.

 That honor belonged to Craig Stammen, who finished up the fifth inning and pitched a perfect sixth to pick up the victory.

 As a result, the Giants dropped the three-game series with San Diego, and they will now head home and face the St. Louis Cardinals for a four-game series that starts Thursday night at AT&T Park.