Glenn Connelly, Staff Photographer

When a team is in the midst of a 13-game losing streak, the things that should go right sometimes don’t.

Line drives find gloves instead of holes.

Seemingly simple plays don’t get made.

Opportunities aren’t seized.

San Diego State missed plenty of opportunities last Sunday, as the University of the Pacific completed a three-game sweep of the Aztecs with a 10-4 win at Tony Gwynn Stadium.

“They’re all starting to look the same and it’s really frustrating,” Gwynn said. “It’s the same kind of pattern for us. You fall behind early because of a couple errors, and you have to slowly start pecking away.”

But, even though the team gave Pacific (16-7) that early cushion, SDSU (6-23) did not stop fighting.

The Aztecs were patient at the plate against the Tigers’ erratic starter Ty’Relle Harris, loading the bases in the third inning. However, they were able to squeeze only one run out of what looked like a juicy situation – a sign of things to come.

Down 5-1 in the bottom of the fourth inning, SDSU senior Joey Huskins crushed a pitch from Harris over the right-field fence for his first home run of the season.

Although Harris retired the next two hitters, the Aztecs tightened up at the plate with two outs. Sophomore Joey Scaperotta coaxed a walk out of Harris, and the lead was cut to 5-3 when junior Lance Zawadzki tripled him home.

Harris retired senior Paul Smyth to get out of the inning, but he would not return for the fifth. Finally, SDSU sent the opposing starter to the showers early and had the chance to work against the other team’s bullpen.

But Pacific’s bullpen proved up to the task. The Tigers replaced Harris with pitcher Jake Wild, who was anything but.

Wild threw four near-perfect innings, retired 12 of the 14 batters he faced and allowed just one run – an opposite field homer to junior Quintin Berry.

“Their guy threw well today,” Gwynn said. “The first guy was high 80s to low 90s and the next guy was in the 90s pretty consistently.

“When you’re in a rut like this, someone has got to get a big hit or make a big play, and, unfortunately, we just aren’t getting it.”