Rockies make more sad history, are halfway to 100 losses before getting 10th win

Rockies Report, Game 59:

ROCKIES BOTTOM LINE: Well, it happened.

The Rockies became the first team to lose 50 games before winning their 10th.

This dubious distinction — the latest ignominy to befall the Rox in a start to the season unlike any seen by any person walking the earth — was sealed by three Mets home runs that provided all of New York’s offense, dealing Colorado a 5-3 defeat at Citi Field.

Colorado dropped to 9-50.

Halfway to 100 losses by June 1.

It was the eighth consecutive defeat for the Rockies. This is the fourth eight-game losing streak they’ve had this season.

They’ve had twice as many eight-game losing streaks in the last two months — four — as they had in the previous five seasons combined (two).

They continue to make the wrong kind of history, with a start that isn’t even the worst in the modern era … but plumbing the depths of the worst ever, period, going back to the 19th century.

The Colorado Rockies have established a new major league record for futility.
After losing to the Mets today, they now have a 9-50 record, which is the most games played by any team in baseball history before earning their 10th win.
Only four teams had played 55 or more games…

— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) June 1, 2025

As for Sunday, Carson Palmquist started and yielded a three-run shot by Pete Alonso and a solo home run to Francisco Lindor. Juan Soto added a solo homer in the eighth inning.

Home runs kept the Rockies in it. Orlando Arcia delivered a solo shot in the fourth inning to put Colorado up, 1-0. Alonso’s blast put the Mets in front.

But Tyler Freeman’s two-run homer tied it, part of a 2-for-3 day. But Lindor’s home run — the second one allowed by Palmquist — put the Mets back in front to stay.

Jake Bird and Tyler Kinley delivered spotless bullpen work to keep the game close; Bird’s ERA is at 1.60 as he continues to make his All-Star case.

Zach Agnos entered in the eighth inning and surrendered the insurance run for the final margin. In a rare lapse for the rookie, he left a 3-2 splitter squarely in the zone that Soto crushed 388 feet to right center field.

It was the second home run surrendered by Agnos in 15 major-league appearances and provided the final margin.

ROCKIES STARTER’S REPORT

At every level of his minor-league career, Palmquist had a high strikeout rate. It was just a matter of time before that manifested at the major-league level.

In start No. 4, it did. He struck out the Mets eight times over 4 2/3 innings — the most strikeouts recorded by a Rockies starter this season. His strikeout total has gone from 0 to two to four to eight in his four starts.

“I thought that was his best start yet,” Rockies interim manager Warren Schaeffer said.

But home runs have been a bugaboo; his HR/9 rate is now 2.0 after giving up the blasts to Alonso and Lindor.

BITS AND PIECES

IT WAS DECIDED FOR THE ROCKIES WHEN: Edwin Diaz got Brenton Doyle looking to end the Rockies’ hopes in the ninth inning, leaving Sam Hilliard stranded at first base.

ROCKIES NUMBER TO NOTE: 3 — Hits by players added to the Rockies’ major-league roster this week, as Hilliard had two hits and Arcia had one with his first homer as a Rockie.

WHAT’S NEXT: Germán Márquez hopes to continue his recent surge Monday night in Miami. The Marlins will counter with Max Meyer. Miami has lost three of Meyer’s last four starts. First pitch at LoanDepot Park in Little Havana will be at 4:40 p.m. MDT.

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