Rockies Report, Game 160:

ROCKIES BOTTOM LINE: A lingering hug from Kyle Freeland and embraces from other teammates and coaches greeted Germán Márquez when he returned to the dugout after his 4 1/3 innings of work Friday night at Oracle Park in San Francisco.

They knew. So did Márquez, who spoke after his final home start of the season about the emotions flooding through him after 10 seasons with the Rockies that appear to be ending with the expiration of his contract and the likelihood that the club will not bring him back for the 2026 season.

His work last Saturday was splendid in defeat — two earned runs allowed in seven innings for his sixth quality start of 26 trips to the mount this season.

But on Friday against the San Francisco Giants, he was rocked early, giving up a two-run homer in the first inning that paved the way for a 6-3 defeat that dropped the Rockies to 43-117.

Ezequiel Tovar provided all of the offense for the Rockies in the fifth inning, capping the Rockies’ only rally of the night with a three-run homer to whittle the Giants’ edge to 5-3.

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Colorado is 4-19 in September and has dropped 27 of 33 games since winning seven out of nine games in mid-August. Overall, the season can be roughly divided into three phases — a horrific start (9-50), a respectable-but-still lousy middle in which they went 28-40 — which would have put them on pace for a 67-95 finish — and the current 6-27 run.

ROCKIES STARTER’S REPORT

Even when Márquez allowed just two runs in seven innings last Saturday, he yielded two home runs, and the long ball felled him again Friday night, as he surrendered first- and second inning homers, extending his streak of starts in which he’s allowed at least one home run to 12.

In that span, he’s allowed 18 home runs, with four multi-homer games in his past five starts.

Márquez fell to 3-16, with his loss tally tied for the major-league lead with Freeland and Washington’s Mitchell Parker.

His ERA and WHIP of 6.70 and 1.71, respectively, are his worst season-long figures for any campaign in which he had more than one appearance.

BITS AND PIECES

IT WAS DECIDED FOR THE ROCKIES WHEN: Bryce Eldridge tacked on another run with a sacrifice fly to increase the Giants’ lead to 6-3 in the fifth inning. Colorado had just one baserunner after that.

NUMBER TO NOTE: 6.67 — The Rockies’ season-long ERA for starting pitchers. According to numbers posted by former MLB pitcher and current Braves broadcaster C.J. Nitkowski, the all-time single-season worst ERA for a team’s starting pitchers is 6.64, set by the 1996 Detroit Tigers.

WHAT’S NEXT: Kyle Freeland makes his final start of the season as he tries to pull his season-long ERA below 5.00. Justin Verlander draw the starting assignment for the Giants in a game that is scheduled for a 2:05 p.m. first-pitch time.