BOSTON — Matt Waldron can’t win them all, and the San Diego Padres can’t win them all.

Kyle Higashioka and Jackson Merrill can’t hit home runs every day.

A team can, however, put a man on to start five consecutive innings in the middle of a game and not score even once in that span.

All of that did (or did not) occur Sunday afternoon for the Padres at Fenway Park, as the Boston Red Sox salvaged the final game of the teams’ three-game series with a 4-1 victory completed in time to beat the worst of a summer storm.

”They got the lead, put some swings on Waldy,” Padres manager Mike Shildt said. “They were able to add on a little bit. We had some guys on, just couldn’t cash in.”

The loss ended the Padres’ season-best winning streak at five games and interrupted a string of excellence by Waldron that began in mid-May.

Sunday was the first time in 10 starts Waldron allowed more than two runs and the first time in seven starts he did not go at least six innings.

Along the way, he surrendered two home runs for the first time in 17 starts this season.

He had given up that many over his past nine starts, a span in which his 1.95 ERA ranked fifth in the major leagues.

The Red Sox hardly chased Waldron’s knuckleball and didn’t miss as often as other teams when they did swing.

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