MIAMI — The Marlins set a franchise record for futility Sunday afternoon, dropping their 12th consecutive game in a 5-3 loss to the Padres at loanDepot park after blowing a 3-1 lead in the eighth inning — a collapse that now puts the club’s roster squarely in play with the Aug. 3 Trade Deadline seven games away.

No Major League club has ever reached the postseason in the same season it dropped 12 in a row. The Marlins have averaged just 2.5 runs per game during the streak, scoring three runs or fewer in 10 of the 12 contests. Eleven of the losses have been decided by three runs or fewer.

“Look, there’s no hiding from it. It’s what it is. Does anybody feel good? Certainly not,” manager Clayton McCullough said. “But to come in here each day and cry about it, make excuses? I don’t know what that’s going to do. I think we have a very prideful group that is certainly upset, frustrated, angry about how things are going. But we’re the only ones that can change that. So I think that’s where [to] turn it around and come back tomorrow, it’s going to be staring at us again. We’ve just got to meet this head-on and continue to go, because there’s really no other choice.”

With Miami protecting its 3-1 lead in the eighth, McCullough turned to righty Lake Bachar — who entered with one hold and one save this season — rather than scuffling closer Pete Fairbanks. Jake Cronenworth singled, Manny Machado crushed a game-tying two-run homer, and Jackson Merrill lined a go-ahead shot just over the right-center wall. The decisive four-run inning pushed the team ERA to 6.47 in the seventh inning or later and gave the club two blown saves during the streak that could have ended it sooner.

“I’ve been using Pete in the ninth inning. Right now, [going to] continue to do that, and again, like Lake or whoever else we have down there, feel terrific about that,” McCullough said.

Kyle Stowers provided the Marlins’ final run with a leadoff homer to the upper deck in right in the third inning off righty Walker Buehler. Right-hander Janson Junk limited San Diego to one run over 4 2/3 innings, scattering seven hits, walking none and striking out a season-high-tying six batters. Junk was also the winning pitcher in Miami’s last victory, which came July 9 against the Mariners.

“It’s not fun going through this right now. It really sucks,” Junk said. “I think brighter days are ahead. This team is good. We’ve shown it before. This is a patch, facing some adversity early out of the break, and I think we’ll come out of this stronger.”

Stowers acknowledged the losing but rejected the idea the Marlins are playing poorly. “At the end of the day, we’re not doing enough to win in the sense that we’re not winning these games, right?” Stowers said. “But I don’t think we’re playing bad at all. How we’ve been playing, we’re playing good enough to win games, but obviously, like I said, we’re one play short just about most of the nights.”

Stowers added: “We still feel like we’re in a good spot. I think we still love our chances. We love this group. We think we’re a damn good team. I think it’s just more of the micro level of just losing this many times in a row sucks. I’m not thinking about the playoff picture, all that stuff. We just want to win right now, and we want to win every day.”

The Marlins face the Aug. 3 Trade Deadline with seven games remaining before the cutoff, and the franchise-record skid could accelerate a sell-off that turns Miami into sellers for the stretch run.