{"id":858551,"date":"2026-09-24T04:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858551\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T04:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:28:21","slug":"rockies-make-brutal-mlb-history-not-seen-in-60-years-as-moribund-season-wraps-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858551\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies make brutal MLB history not seen in 60 years as moribund season wraps up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Colorado Rockies<\/a> could lose every game for the rest of the season and still finish 14 games better than last season. The bad news? If that happens, they will finish with 105 losses.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the Rockies clinched their fourth straight season with 100 or more losses with their 7-2 defeat against the Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> at Coors Field. They are the first team since the expansion New York Mets from 1962-65 to achieve the dubious feat and just the fifth to do it overall.<\/p>\n

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So while they will improve by at least 14 games, and maybe more if they finish strong, the season will go down in the books as another disappointing one. First-year manager Warren Schaeffer said the team has to learn from the experience.<\/p>\n

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\"Kyle <\/p>\n

Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Kyle Freeland hands the ball to manager Warren Schaeffer as he is pulled from the mound in the fourth inning of a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo\/David Zalubowski)<\/p>\n

“You learn your hardest lessons in difficulty in life,” said Warren Schaeffer, in his first season as Colorado\u2019s full-time manager.<\/p>\n

“This is not easy. Last year, we talked about it at the end of the year, how we want to feel this and never feel it again and remember it and hold on to it. The guys have done that. We\u2019ve just lost 100 again. There are a ton of lessons to learn from it. If we don\u2019t learn these lessons from these games this year, we won\u2019t get better.”<\/p>\n

The moribund Rockies have struggled mightily for over a decade and a half now. They have made the postseason<\/a> just twice since 2010, and have not won a postseason series since reaching the World Series in 2007.<\/p>\n

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\"Zac <\/p>\n

Colorado Rockies left fielder Zac Veen catches a fly ball off the bat of Arizona Diamondbacks’ Ildemaro Vargas as shortstop Cole Carrigg looks on in the eighth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo\/David Zalubowski)<\/p>\n

The Rockies’ pitching staff has once again been a major problem, as their team ERA of 5.57 is the highest in baseball. Colorado has finished with the highest team ERA every season since 2022, and if it does so again this year, it will become only the third club since 1913 to have the worst ERA in the majors<\/a> in five consecutive seasons.<\/p>\n

Despite the rough season, the Rockies have a couple of promising pieces for the future.<\/p>\n

Rookie first baseman TJ Rumfield entered Tuesday fifth in the National League with a .300 batting average and led all qualified rookies in batting average and on-base percentage. Hunter Goodman, Colorado\u2019s 26-year-old catcher, was an All-Star for a second consecutive season and is one home run shy of becoming the first Rockies player with 40 homers in a season since 2019.<\/p>\n

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\"Mickey <\/p>\n

Colorado Rockies’ Mickey Moniak heads up the first-base line after connecting for a solo home run off Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Kyle Freeland in the third inning Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo\/David Zalubowski)<\/p>\n

Veteran pitcher Kyle Freeland, who has been with the team for 10 seasons, said the team is heading in the right direction.<\/p>\n

“I think everything we\u2019re doing inside this clubhouse \u2014 coaches, players, front office, all staff \u2014 has been doing an incredible job to make sure that this team and this org is heading in the direction that is winning,” Freeland said. “You see it.”<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

Ryan Canfield is a digital production assistant for Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Rockies could lose every game for the rest of the season and still finish 14 games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2317,2205,1230,363,259870,99],"class_list":["post-858551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-betting","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-mlb","tag-outkick-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}