SAN DIEGO — The Padres are still not hitting a whole lot.

But they are hitting just enough since Friday to have won three times in four games, which is three more times than they had won in their previous six games.

And in the end Monday, they didn’t have to hit.

Tyler Wade scored on a wild pitch by Cade Gibson with one out in the 11th inning to give the Padres a 4-3 victory over the Miami Marlins.

Manny Machado began the 11th inning as the runner at second after making the final out in the 10th. He moved to third on Gavin Sheets’ groundout to the left side.

At that point, Padres manager Mike Shildt replaced Machado at third with the speedy Wade.

After Xander Bogaerts was intentionally walked, Gibson bounced a 2-2 curveball to Jake Croneworth that caromed off catcher Nick Fortes and toward the Padres’ first base side of the batters’ circle.

Fortes gave chase as Wade sprinted home and slid in headfirst with the winning run, beating the tag by Gibson, who also had the ball roll out of his glove.

Adrián Morejón worked a scoreless 11th inning, stranding the automatic runner, to get the win in the Padres’ first extra-inning victory in four tries this season.

A solo home run by Machado tied the game 3-3 in the eighth.

Machado had just three homers through Thursday, the fewest he had ever hit through the first 48 games of a season.

He has hit three since.

The Padres’ 2-1 victory over the Atlanta Braves Friday came on solo homers by Sheets and Machado. Their 5-3 victory on Sunday was powered by Sheets’ game-tying, two-run homer in the sixth, Cronenworth’s go-ahead solo homer in the seventh and Machado’s insurance blast in the eighth.

Facing the Marlins, whose 21-30 record entering Monday’s game was third-worst in the National League and had them in last place in the NL East, the Padres found themselves down 3-0 two innings in and got back close because they had the opportunity to score gifted to them.

They got five hits and are now batting .198 over the past 10 games.

The Marlins’ starting pitcher Monday night was a left-hander named Ryan Weathers, who the Padres selected seventh overall in the 2018 draft and traded to the Marlins at the deadline in 2023 after he pitched in 42 games (29 starts) for them.

Weathers allowed two unearned runs, three hits, walked three and struck out six in 5 2/3 innings.

The second reliever to follow him, Calvin Faucher, served up the 2-0 belt-high cutter on the outer third of the plate that Machado sent 408 feet to left field. Or that is how far it was projected to have gone had it not bounced off the ribbon board below the second deck of seats.

Padres starter Randy Vásquez departed with one out in the seventh inning and his team down 3-2.

Wandy Peralta got the next three outs before David Morgan, making his major league debut, got the final two outs of the eighth inning.

After the game was tied, Padres closer Robert Suarez worked a scoreless ninth, and Jason Adam stranded the automatic runner in the top of the 10th.

Vásquez began the game throwing lots of strikes, and the Marlins hit four of them while building a 2-0 lead in the game’s first half-inning.

The Padres stranded Jackson Merrill and Manny Machado, who had singled and walked with one out, in the bottom of the first.

The Marlins lead was 3-0 Jesús Sanchez’s two-out home run in the second.

Vásquez had thrown 37 pitches to that point.

He would take just 50 while retiring 13 of the next 14 batters to get through six innings without any more damage.

Weathers struck out all three batters he faced in the second and was at just 44 pitches after a 1-2-3 third inning.

But after running his out streak to 10 batters by striking out Machado and getting Sheets on a groundout to start the fourth, he ran into trouble not of his own making.

It began with Bogaerts grounding a single up the middle and stealing second while Jake Cronenworth was up.

But the inning should have ended there when Cronenworth sent a routine grounder to the left side that Connor Norby fielded before sailing the throw.

Luis Campusano followed with a walk that loaded the bases before Jose Iglesias drove in two with a double just inside the bag at third.

The rally fizzled on Martín Maldonado’s groundout.

Vasquez settled in after Sanchez’s home run and retired the next eight batters before walking Sanchez with one out in the fifth. But that inning ended shortly thereafter when Augustín Ramirez struck out and Maldonado threw out Sanchez trying to steal.

A walk by Cronenworth with two outs in the sixth inning gave the Padres their next baserunner and ended Weathers’ night.

He had allowed one run in five innings in both of two previous starts after beginning his season late due to a forearm strain.

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