Rockies Report, Game 151:

ROCKIES BOTTOM LINE: Mickey Moniak’s third home run in the last two games helped the Rockies climb back into Tuesday night’s game after falling behind 6-0 to the Miami Marlins, but with the game-tying and game-winning runs on base, Hunter Goodman lined out in the bottom of the ninth, ensuring that Colorado’s comeback on a rainy night at Coors Field fell one run short in a 6-5 defeat in front of an announced crowd of 22,764.

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Colorado’s bats were silent for much of the night, as Marlins starter Eury Perez and reliever Tyler Phillips combined to shut them out for seven innings. Phillips relieved Perez after a 61-minute rain delay after the fifth inning and allowed only a walk in his two innings after Perez held the Rockies to a Blaine Crim single during his five innings of work.

Finally, the Rockies broke through against Michael Petersen in the eighth. With Kyle Karros on base via a one-out single, Tyler Freeman poked a low, outside cutter into right field with two outs to move Karros to third and keep the inning alive, setting up Moniak two pitches later.

Moniak also drove in a run in the ninth with a sharp grounder to Miami first baseman Eric Wagaman, who promptly threw it back down the first base line as he attempted to throw out Moniak, scoring Karros from second base and moving Freeman to third. Earlier in the inning, Yanquiel Fernández brought home Brenton Doyle via a sacrifice fly.

But the dramatic comeback was not enough.

Colorado dropped to 41-110.

The Rox became just the third National League team since 1970 to lose at least 110 games, joining the Arizona Diamondbacks of 2004 (111 losses) and 2021 (110 defeats).

If Colorado loses three more games, the Rox will have more defeats than any NL team since the 1962 New York Mets.

ROCKIES STARTER’S REPORT

A walk and a plunk dropped Kyle Freeland into trouble in the third inning, setting up a three-run spot for the Marlins that put the Rockies behind. A flurry of contact did the damage in the sixth — two singles and two doubles — which saddled Freeland with six earned runs for the first time in his last eight starts.

Freeland took his 16th loss of the season, the most for any Rockies pitcher in one campaign since Jamey Wright 20 years ago. One more loss will match the franchise single-season record set by the late Darryl Kile in 1998.

BITS AND PIECES

IT WAS DECIDED FOR THE ROCKIES WHEN: Goodman lined out for the 27th out.

NUMBER TO NOTE: 43.8 percent — Blaine Crim’s strikeout rate since being called up in place of Michael Toglia, who had a 39.2 percent K rate.

WHAT’S NEXT: McCade Brown has taken the loss in each of his first four MLB outings; he looks for better on Wednesday night. First pitch is at 6:40 p.m. MDT.