Rockies’ infamy continues with 8-2 loss to Mets; record now 9-49

For one shining moment, the Rockies looked like they could compete with the mighty Mets. Then reality set in, and the Rockies’ season of ill repute continued.

The Mets rolled, 8-2, on Saturday afternoon at Citi Field, sending the Rockies to their seventh straight loss and clinching the three-game series for New York (36-22).

The Rockies now own a 9-49 record, putting them on pace to finish the season 25-137, which would obliterate the White Sox’s 121-loss 2024 season, the worst in baseball’s modern era.

One more historical tidbit: The Rockies have lost all 19 of their series this season and 22 straight series dating back to September of last season. That’s the longest series losing streak in major league history.

But manager Warren Schaeffer continues to preach positivity. Asked by reporters in New York what he would say to Rockies fans who want to see progress, Schaeffer replied, “I say, ‘Stick with us.’ I think you are seeing progress if you are watching the games closely. Today was not our best game, admittedly. But we have been playing good baseball for the past, I don’t know, 10 days. We just haven’t had the Ws.”

Especially not on the road, where Colorado slid to 3-27, the worst start on the road in franchise history and the first major league team since 1901 to lose 27 of their first 30 road games of the season.

Now, back to that very brief, shining moment.

With one out in the first inning, Colorado shortstop Ezequiel Tovar hit right-hander Kodai Senga’s 3-2 forkball for a solo home run to left field. But then Senga took command and retired 17 Colorado batters in a row. All told, the Rockies had just three hits.

Senga pitched 6 1/3 innings, giving up two runs on two hits. He struck out seven and walked two. His ERA is a sterling 1.60.

“We didn’t get the job done today,” Schaeffer said. “We didn’t get it done against Senga, early. The forkball got us.”

Meanwhile, the Mets took batting practice off struggling right-hander Antonio Senzatela, beating him up for seven runs on eight hits in four innings. Included in the onslaught were back-to-back homers by Brandon Nimmo (a two-run blast) and Juan Soto in the Mets’ three-run fourth inning. Soto entered the series in an 0-for-17 slump, but he broke out of the drought with an RBI double in the Mets’ win over Colorado on Friday night.