The struggles of the Mud Hens continued Friday night in a 7-3 loss to Durham at Fifth Third Field.

The turmoil surrounding the Hens’ roster also continued as Toledo lost another player to Detroit, their fourth since coming home a week ago.

Has the roster turnover led to the teams’ current five-game losing streak?

Mud Hens manager Phil Nevin said he hopes not.

“It makes me happy to tell someone he’s going to the big leagues,” Nevin said. “I got to tell Danny Worth he was going to the big leagues.

“I would hope that, once you cross the white lines, you go out and play. But that’s just part of Triple-A baseball.”

All of the movement between Toledo and Detroit certainly affected the Hens pitching staff, which will lose its third starting pitcher since coming home when Andy Oliver joins the Tigers Saturday.

Lefty Ramon Garcia pitched gamely, covering a season-high five innings while limiting Durham to six hits and two runs.

After the game Garcia was demoted to Double-A Erie so the Hens could add some pitching help.

“When you start playing the game, you play the cards you are dealt,” Nevin said. “[Garcia] did a great job for five innings — and he fought with us to not come out of the game.

“He was at a pitch count where he hasn’t been this season, and I’m not going to hurt a guy. He wanted to pitch, and it showed me a lot — I appreciated it.”

The Bulls scored in the second when Russ Canzler singled, took second on a single by Chris Carter, and scored on a two-out single by J.J. Furmaniak.

In the fourth Canzler slammed his fourth home run of the season. He finished the night 3 for 5 with three runs scored and two RBIs.

Hens reliever Matt Hoffman gave up a run in the sixth but used a 1-2-3 double play to wiggle out of a bases-loaded jam.

In the eighth Toledo’s Brendan Wise, who threw a season-high three innings three days ago, gave up a two-run double to Chris Carter that broke a 3-3 tie.

A throwing error by Will Rhymes on a potential double-play grounder resulted in two unearned runs charged to Robbie Weinhardt in the ninth.

“In the last four innings, we walked five guys,” Nevin said. “I know one of the walks was intentional, but they got five walks and we only had one.

“In a close baseball game, that was the difference.”

The Mud Hen offense produced 10 hits but only three runs, two of which scored on Ryan Strieby’s first-inning home run.

Rhymes doubled to lead off the fifth, then came home on an Argenis Diaz single for the other run.

“We got 10 hits, but they were spotty,” Nevin said. “They weren’t bunched together, and that’s how you score runs.

“We didn’t put together a bunch, and they bunched up their walks and hits.”

NOTES: Before the game the Mud Hens placed catcher Omir Santos on the disabled list after he was hit by several foul balls in Thursday’s game. Catcher Jeff Kunkel was promoted from Hi-A Lakeland to replace him. ... Worth was called up to Detroit to replace Scott Sizemore after the latter was traded to Oakland. ... Saturday the Hens are expected to get third baseman Bryan Pounds from Erie to replace Worth. ... The Tigers demoted reliever Ryan Perry to Toledo to make room for Andy Oliver.

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First Published May 28, 2011, 2:38 a.m.