LOS ANGELES — The losses are piling up on and off the field.

The Padres, who entered Friday’s game at Dodger Stadium looking to avoid falling below .500 for the first time since the season’s second week, placed catcher Freddy Fermin on the 10-day injured list with a head bruise and starting pitcher Randy Vásquez on the 15-day IL with a right ankle bruise.

That comes a day after the Padres took a significant hit to the bullpen when right-hander Jason Adam went on the IL with a strained muscle in his throwing shoulder.

“It’s tough on everybody, It’s tough on the team, it’s tough on the individuals that it happens to,” manager Craig Stammen said. “But also, we know that we’ve got a collective unit that can band together. We’re making that foxhole tight, and you know, using it as a viewpoint of, like, this is testing us. And what comes from testing? We think perseverance, determination and resilience.

And those are good qualities, and so if we use this to our advantage and those qualities come out from it, we’ll be in good shape going forward.”

Catcher Luis Campusano was activated off his rehab assignment after missing the past eight weeks with a fractured big toe. Reliever Alek Jacob was recalled to take Vásquez’s spot on the active roster. It is not known what the Padres will do when Vásquez’s turn in the rotation comes up Tuesday against the Diamondbacks.

Campusano played just two games in Triple-A, including behind the plate for nine innings Thursday. The Padres were leaning toward him returning Monday but moved that timeline up when Fermin got hurt.

“Maybe a little early,” Stammen said. “I think we would have let him play a few more games. But circumstances changed that. He’s healthy.”

Fermin left Monday’s game, the Padres’ sixth consecutive defeat, after taking a foul tip off his face mask. It was at least the 10th time he has taken such a hit. He went on the concussion IL on June 14 after being hit in the side of the head a day earlier by a bounced warmup pitch.

“We know the hits that Freddy has taken to the head throughout the course of the season,” Stammen said. “And while he did not get diagnosed with a concussion (Thursday), we felt it was smart to take care of him and just give him a little bit more time to heal up from that previous concussion without getting another head blow.”

Vásquez was hit by a 99 mph line drive in Thursday’s first inning. He pitched through the third before departing having allowed four runs.

On his way to have X-rays at Dodger Stadium, Vásquez fainted and was taken to the hospital. It is unclear why he lost consciousness, but Stammen said tests revealed no significant health issue.

“Just being very cautious with him — what he went through yesterday out on the field and then off the field also,” Stammen said. “Just give him a little breather. All things pointing positive for Randy today, but just got to be careful.”

Adam update

Adam clarified Friday that the strain in his shoulder was in his subscapularis, the largest muscle in the rotator cuff.

“As far as … shoulder-related injuries go, this is as good as I could ask for,” Adam said. “The capsule is all strong, the labrum is all strong. I should definitely be pitching down the stretch this year.”

Adam, whose 1.88 ERA since joining the Padres at the trade deadline in 2024 is lowest in the major leagues among qualifying relievers, has primarily worked the seventh and eighth inning this season. He had allowed five runs in 7⅓ innings over his eight outings before going on the IL. But he said he did not feel poorly until he was playing catch the day after he worked 1⅓ innings on Monday in Chicago.

“I hate to be missing time, especially at this point in the season,” he said. “You want to be out there supporting your teammates. Especially in pretty crucial games in the middle of the long stretch with a lot of games, you want to be there. That’s what they pay us for in the bullpen.”

Adam’s goal is to be back in games by “early to mid-August,” though he acknowledged that was an “aggressive” timeline.

Stammen indicated it was not unrealistic.

“Any time a pitcher goes down with a shoulder elbow injury, you’re hoping it’s not season-ending,” Stammen said. “And for that, we got good news that it wasn’t season-ending, that he’ll just need some time off and rest.”