Kyle Schwarber showed what’s wrong with the Rockies and Coors Field on Monday

The best bar in Denver, also known as Coors Field, was the sight of yet another Rockies collapse on Monday night as the bullpen blew a 3-1 lead against Kyle Schwarber and the Philadelphia Phillies to drop the club’s record to a whopping 8-39. That record is the fourth-worst mark in MLB history and the worst by any team since the 1895 Louisville Colonels.

#Rockies on pace to lose 134 games after getting clobbered by #Phillies. Graphic from ESPN pic.twitter.com/7f0qV6mKl6

— Troy Renck (@TroyRenck) May 20, 2025

Schwarber hit the 300th home run of his career on Monday night, a 466-foot moonshot that was just feet short of landing on the Rooftop, aka Dick Monfort’s money maker.

466 FT later!

THIS angle of Kyle Schwarber's 300th career homer! 🔥 pic.twitter.com/lZsnwGnjdf

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After the game, Schwarber was being interviewed by the Phillies local broadcast team on NBC Sports Philadelphia and had a quote that illuminated everything that’s currently wrong with the Rockies organization.

“It’s fun, I wish we could’ve done it at home, but we got a nice little home crowd here,” Schwarber said as the crowd of Philly faithful chanted ‘MVP’ to the 2022 NL home run leader.

Of the crowd at Denver’s Coors Field, Philadelphia Phillies designated hitter Kyle Schwarber calls it a “nice little home crowd.” Ugh pic.twitter.com/BXL41PPjRq

— Andrew Mason (@MaseDenver) May 20, 2025

Seriously? It should be alarming for any franchise if their home stadium has more fans for the road team than the home team, and if those fans are dishing out MVP chants to the road team’s best player. Schwarber’s quote here is showing that the people who go to Coors Field don’t care about the Rockies, a problem that will likely only get worse.

With the Yankees and the Mets being the next two teams to come to Coors Field after the Phillies, Coors Field will likely be looking and sounding like this time and time again over the next couple of series. Those two franchises and the Phillies have some of the best, most passionate fans in the sport.

Monday’s reported attendance was 23,487 for a chilly night to see one of the worst teams in the history of baseball. It will never be known how many of those fans were true Rockies fans, how many were Philadelphia fans, and how many were random Denverites who don’t care about baseball and just want a pretty bar to have a couple of drinks in.

The Rockies currently rank 19th in the MLB in attendance, but the weather hasn’t truly been nice enough consistently like it will be soon for the attendance to start increasing like it does every season. While the weather might not persuade true fans of the team to show up, it will certainly persuade families and friends looking to have a fun night out at the ballpark, and put more money in Monfort’s pockets.

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