TORONTO -- After Devon Travis came within a few feet of a game-winning home run, he found a different way to circle the bases.Travis scored the winning run on a wild pitch, and the Toronto Blue Jays rallied for three runs in the 12th inning to beat the San Diego Padres 7-6 on Tuesday night.Matt Kemp put the Padres in front with a two-run homer off Jesse Chavez (1-2) in the top of the 12th, but San Diegos bullpen couldnt hold the lead.Travis drew a 14-pitch walk to load the bases, bringing Paul Clemens on in relief of Carlos Villanueva (1-2). Travis fouled off eight straight pitches, including one drive that sailed just wide of the left-field foul screen.Thats as good as it gets, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said.Clemens walked Jose Bautista to make it 6-5 before Josh Donaldson tied it with a fielders choice grounder.With Edwin Encarnacion batting, a pitch bounced away from catcher Derek Norris, and Travis slid in headfirst just ahead of the tag as his teammates stormed out of the dugout to celebrate.I know (Clemens) has a really good curveball, a really sharp one, Travis said. I was praying for in the dirt. It took a bad bounce, but a good bounce for us.Gibbons called it a crazy game.Im proud of the guys, he said. They keep gutting it out, competing.It was the second key run to score on a wild pitch: Toronto catcher Russell Martin made it 4-all when he scored on Brad Hands wild pitch in the seventh.It is a frustrating loss, especially how hard the guys battled back on a couple of occasions, Padres manager Andy Green said.Donaldson hit a two-run homer and Justin Smoak had a solo shot for the Blue Jays.Alex Dickerson hit a three-run shot, his third homer in three games, as San Diego extended its club-record streak of games with at least one home run to 24. Its the longest run since the 2002 Texas Rangers set a major league record by homering in 27 straight.Donaldson connected off Andrew Cashner in the first, his 25th, but San Diego halved the deficit on Ryan Schimpfs RBI double in the second.Smoaks leadoff homer in the fifth put Toronto up 3-1, but Marcus Stroman couldnt hold the lead, giving up Dickersons homer in the sixth.Outfielder Melvin Upton Jr., traded from San Diego to Toronto before the game, made his Blue Jays debut as a pinch hitter in the seventh. He grounded into a fielders choice.WHEELING AND DEALINGToronto announced another trade minutes after the game ended: The Blue Jays acquired reliever Joaquin Benoit from the Seattle Mariners for right-hander Drew Storen. Benoit, who turned 39 on Tuesday, is 1-1 with a 5.18 ERA in 26 games this season.WORKING OVERTIMEThe Blue Jays and Padres have played extra innings three times in their past five meetings. The first of those games lasted 17 innings.REPEAT PERFORMANCEDonaldson is the first third baseman in Blue Jays history to post consecutive 25-homer seasons.HIT PARADEBlue Jays RHP Roberto Osuna hit two batters with pitches in the ninth, matching the number hed hit in 114 previous career innings pitched.TRAINERS ROOMPadres: Class-A RHP Chris Paddack, acquired from Miami in last months trade for Fernando Rodney, has been sidelined indefinitely with a strained forearm.Blue Jays: Gibbons said Jose Bautista will be the DH on Wednesday, allowing Upton to make his first start for Toronto.UP NEXTPadres: RHP Luis Perdomo (4-4, 6.93 ERA) will make his first career appearance against Toronto. He has allowed three earned runs or fewer in six of his past seven starts.Blue Jays: RHP R.A. Dickey (7-11, 4.44) will start on three days rest, with RHP Marco Estrada getting pushed back to Friday. Estrada (back) was on the disabled list from July 3 to July 21. Dickey has lost his past two starts. 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Cheap Old Skool .ca looks back at the stories and moments that made the year memorable. MANCHESTER, England -- With a third straight win in qualifying, defending champion Germany is enjoying a comfortable ride on the road to the 2018 World Cup in Russia.Things just got a bit tougher for England, though.While Englands winning start to Group F ended with a poor display in a 0-0 draw at Slovenia on Tuesday, Germany maintained its 100 percent record after three rounds by beating Northern Ireland 2-0. Only three other teams -- Belgium, Greece and Switzerland -- have opened European qualifying with three successive victories.Goals in the first 17 minutes from Julian Draxler and Sami Khedira gave Germany a commanding lead that was never really threatened in Hannover. Joachim Loew tied Sepp Herbergers record of 94 wins as Germany coach and it couldnt be going much better for the world champions settled team: Three wins from three games, eight goals scored and none conceded.England also leads its group but the displays are hardly encouraging for its fans. Three days after a tedious 2-0 win over Malta, England required a brilliant performance from goalkeeper Joe Hart to earn a point in Ljubljana.One of Harts saves was sensational, when he tipped Jasmin Kurtics header onto the bar off a corner and then clawed the loose ball away from the line in his next movement. Hart also denied Slovenia in two one-on-one chances, gifted by slack England back-passes.Englands national team is in a state of flux, just a few months after an embarrassing last-16 loss to Iceland in the European Championship. Gareth Southgate is in interim charge after Sam Allardyce left as coach last month -- after just 67 days in the job -- following a newspaper sting, and captain Wayne Rooney was dropped against Slovenia because of poor form.Englands young team is still the favorite to qualify from Group F and has a two-point lead after three games.Heres a look at the rest of the action on the final night of qualifiers in this latest period of internationals:---GROUP CThe only team close to Germany is Azerbaijan, which settled for a 0-0 draw against the Czech Republic in OOstrava after opening with two wins.ddddddddddddIn the other match, Norway defeated San Marino 4-1 in Oslo for its first points in qualifying. There was still time for celebrations for the 201st-ranked visitors, who scored their first away goal in World Cup qualifying since 2001 when Mattia Stefanelli equalized nine minutes into the second half.Norway scored three goals in the final 13 minutes, through Adama Diomande, Martin Samuelsen and Joshua King.---GROUP ERobert Lewandowski struck five minutes into stoppage time to earn Poland a 2-1 victory over 10-man Armenia and keep the team on pace with Montenegro at the top of the group.It was the eighth consecutive qualifier that Lewandowski has scored in, with his latest goal coming three days after a hat trick in a 3-2 win over Denmark.Armenia lost Gael Andonian in the 30th minute after two yellow cards in two minutes. Hrayr Mkoyan netted an own goal to put Poland 1-0 up in the 48th minute before Marcos Pinheiro equalized in the 50th.Montenegro beat Denmark 1-0 away thanks to Fatos Becirajs 32nd-minute goal and is well-placed to challenge Poland and qualify for the World Cup for the first time. Both Poland and Montenegro have seven points from three games.Romania was held 0-0 by Kazakhstan in the other game.---GROUP FSlovenia stayed two points behind England after three games and was joined on five points by Lithuania, which beat Malta 2-0 for its first win in the group.Fiodor Cernych and Arvydas Novikovas, from the penalty spot, scored in the final 14 minutes to leave Malta without a point so far.In the other game, Robert Mak scored two goals and set up the third for Adam Nemec as Slovakia beat Scotland 3-0 to earn its first points in qualifying. It was Scotlands first loss, coming three days after a disappointing 1-1 draw at home to Lithuania.Only two nations, Portugal in 1985 and England in 2001, have recorded wins over the Germans in their 86 World Cup qualifiers. ' ' '
