Careening Rockies slide to 9-48 record with 4-2 loss to Mets at Citi Field

When Mets star shortstop Francisco Lindor led off the first inning with a home run, it already felt like the Rockies were in deep trouble. The Rockies’ track record told us so.

When Lindor led off the eighth with another solo blast, those feelings were confirmed.

The Mets beat the hapless Rockies, 4-2, on Friday night at Citi Field as Colorado continued to make the worst kind of history.

The Rockies lost their sixth straight and slid to 3-26 on the road. And here’s the kicker: Colorado’s overall record is an almost unfathomable 9-48, putting them on pace to go 26-136.

Rockies starter Kyle Freeland, a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School, gave the Rockies a quality start, but he couldn’t best Regis Jesuit grad David Peterson. The Mets’ lefty flummoxed the Rockies for 5 2/3 innings, surrendering one run on five hits with five strikeouts and one walk. Ryan McMahon’s two-out RBI double to score Thairo Estrada in the fifth was his only major mistake.

Peterson made his sixth consecutive quality start and improved to 4-2 with a 2.69 ERA. In eight home starts this season, the lefty has given up just one home run. In five career starts vs. Colorado, Peterson is 3-1 with a 1.99 ERA.

The Rockies nearly got to Peterson in the third, loading the bases with two outs. Estrada, making his first start for the Rockies after coming off the 60-day injured list, ripped a 107 mph line drive — straight into the glove of the leaping Lindor.

And so it goes for Colorado.

There was a feel-good moment for Colorado. In the seventh, outfielder Sam Hilliard, promoted from Triple-A Albuquerque on Friday, hit a pinch-hit home run off reliever Huascar Brazoban, slicing New York’s lead to 3-2. But Lindor’s homer off reliever Seth Halvorsen in the eighth put the game away.