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Spare a thought for fans of the Colorado Rockies, aft their squad gave up a barely-believable 21 runs to the San Diego Padres successful an embarrassing Saturday nighttime astatine Coors Field.
The Rockies are retired connected their ain arsenic the worst squad successful shot successful 2025, with Sunday's nonaccomplishment their 33rd successful 39 games, starring to chants of 'sell the team' from the crowd.
Padres pitcher Stephen Kolek threw a implicit crippled shoutout successful the 21-0 win, which was the astir lopsided nine-inning show by a transportation since Silver King for the St Louis Browns successful May 1889.
The Padres deed 5 location runs, including from Fernando Tatis Jr. and Xander Bogaerts successful the 5th inning, connected a ascendant nighttime successful Denver.
On societal media, fans were speedy to statement the Rockies the 'worst squad successful nonrecreational sports history', and a pugnacious upcoming docket means things are lone apt to get worse.
One instrumentality wrote: 'If you lined up each nonrecreational franchise successful each athletics and ranked them 1-n, the Colorado Rockies are n and it isn’t adjacent close.'
Jacob Stallings, usually a catcher, smiles arsenic helium watches 1 of his pitches alert implicit his head
The scoreboard did not marque for benignant speechmaking for fans of the Colorado Rockies connected Saturday
Sportswriter Tab Bamford added: 'I didn’t deliberation it could get worse than past year’s White Sox but the existent Rockies are the worst squad successful shot history. Period.
'They’re putting a Double-A lineup retired determination each nighttime with pitching that astir apt should beryllium successful a men’s Sunday league.'
The Rockies person present matched the 1988 Baltimore Orioles for the worst 39-game commencement successful the majors successful 130 years. Baltimore finished 54-107 that season.
Kolek's shutout, meanwhile, came successful lone his 2nd large league start. He cruised done Colorado's lineup, allowing 5 hits and struck retired seven.
It was an unthinkable nighttime for Stephen Kolek (left) of the San Diego Padres astatine Coors Field
Bud Black is enduring a chastening play arsenic manager of the woeful Colorado Rockies
The lone clip helium faced occupation was successful the sixth erstwhile the Rockies had runners connected the corners with 1 retired but helium induced Hunter Goodman into an inning-ending treble play.
Sheets homered disconnected Bradley Blalock (0-2) successful the five-run archetypal inning and Heyward deed a three-run changeable successful the 4th erstwhile San Diego sent 12 men to the plate. The Padres scored astatine slightest 1 tally done the archetypal six innings.
Jackson Merrill had 4 hits and Elias Díaz and Luis Arraez finished with 3 hits apiece. Eight batters recorded astatine slightest 2 hits for San Diego.
Colorado's backup catcher Jacob Stallings tossed the last 2 innings. He gave up a tally successful the eighth and struck retired Díaz looking to commencement the ninth.
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