Rockies Report, Game 162:

ROCKIES BOTTOM LINE: The Rockies concluded this completely miserable season in appropriate fashion.

Plagued by strikeouts all year, they whiffed 13 times. Dogged by defensive woes despite owner Dick Monfort’s offseason proclamation about the quality of the infield defense, Ezequiel Tovar committed an eighth-inning error, adding to the team’s National League-worst tally.

And appropriately, they were shut out.

The San Francisco Giants blanked the Rockies 4-0, completing a season-ending series sweep and a winless six-game road trip to conclude a season that narrowly avoided being the most wretched in the 162-game era of the sport.

Willy Adames and Rafael Devers delivered the solo homers that put the Rockies into a 2-0 hole by the fourth inning and chased starter McCade Brown. Those runs also ensured that the Rockies finished with a starting-pitcher ERA of 6.65 for the season, which is believed to be the worst in major-league history.

Colorado finished 43-119, including a miserable 4-21 September.

The Rox finished the season almost as poorly as they opened it. Colorado began with a 9-50 mark, closed by going 6-29 and in between went 28-40. In that middle segment, they played at a 67-95 pace. But in the first 59 games, they were on a 25-137 pace; in the final 35 they closed on a 28-134 pace.

And now comes the wait for whatever is next … a reckoning? The equivalent of the HAZMAT team cleaning out the operation after a third-consecutive 100-loss season — with this one seeing more losses than all but two teams in the history of the sport?

Or will the coming weeks see what has typically been the case for the Rockies … tentative steps and words about change, but little of the truly foundational alterations that the baseball operations desperately require after falling hopelessly behind?

The only positive of a season as catastrophic as the one just witnessed is this: You have freedom to try virtually anything, because there should be no fear of getting worse. It can’t be worse than this.

“We have a lot of work to do this offseason; I think it’s been apparent for a while now,” interim manager Warren Schaeffer said.

Now comes the looming question: Will he be the one to do it?

ROCKIES STARTER’S REPORT

Brown entered Sunday looking to build off of his strong start last Tuesday at Seattle, but it took just one pitch — a sinker that lingered midway up in the strike zone on the inner half — to send the Rox on a path to their 119th loss and Brown to his fifth defeat.

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Devers’ homer to lead off the fourth doubled the lead, and then a subsequent walk and a single ended Brown’s day after 62 pitches.

“He was already past his innings limit on the year,” Schaeffer said.

Brown wasn’t able to find the same strikeout groove he located last Tuesday in Seattle before being relieved. He finished the season with a 7.36 ERA and a 1.83 WHIP over seven major-league starts after being called up from AA Hartford.

The question now is whether the Rockies opt to continue his development at the major-league level or return him to the minor leagues for further seasoning; last Tuesday’s start was the first moment where he showed signs of being truly ready for the major-league level.

BITS AND PIECES

IT WAS DECIDED FOR THE ROCKIES WHEN: Warming Bernabel struck out with two on and two out in the seventh and the Rox trailing, 2-0.

NUMBER TO NOTE: 50 — Number of games back of first place the Rockies finished.

WHAT’S NEXT: The offseason … and a question of whether the Rockies choose to remove the “interim” tag from Schaeffer’s title, retain general manager Bill Schmidt, or do the one thing that Dick Monfort’s organization has never been willing to do: Push the button and blow it up.