The Rockies won\u2019t set a major league record for failure, but they sit on the doorstep of franchise infamy after a Sunday afternoon loss to the Padres.<\/p>\n
The Padres smacked four home runs and clubbed them, 8-1, at Coors Field to clinch the three-game series. It was loss No. 103 for Colorado, tying the club record for most losses in a season set in 2023.<\/p>\n
With 19 games remaining, the 2025 Rockies won\u2019t lose a modern-era record 121 games as the 2024 White Sox did, but they will surely set a club record for futility.<\/p>\n
The Padres, meanwhile, improved to 78-65 and remained one game behind the Dodgers in the race for the National League West title.<\/p>\n
Win or (mostly) lose, the Rockies have made a habit of staging comebacks late in games during the second half of the season.\u00a0 There was none of that on a perfect September afternoon at the ballpark. San Diego took an early lead against starter Tanner Gordon and piled on from there.<\/p>\n
The Padres had 15 hits, the Rockies six, with just two over the last six innings. Colorado scratched out its only run off right-hander Dylan Cease in the third, combining a bloop double by Orlando Arcia with an RBI single by Ezequiel Tovar.<\/p>\n
Gordon had gone 3-0 with a 2.74 ERA over his previous four starts, but he didn\u2019t have the right stuff on Sunday. The Padres ripped him for six runs on six hits over 3 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n
Home runs, which have haunted Rockies pitchers all season, especially at Coors Field, bedeviled Gordon. Manny Machado hit a 452-foot, two-run homer to left-center in the first inning, Jackson Merrill lined a 372-foot solo shot over the left-field wall in the second, and Gavin Sheets hit a 451-foot solo bomb into the second deck in right in the fourth inning.<\/p>\n
San Diego\u2019s fourth homer arrived in the fifth with a leadoff homer by Ramon Laureano off lefty reliever Luis Peralta, whose ERA stands at 10.80.<\/p>\n
The Rockies, losers of 13 of their last 16 games, begin a three-game home stand against the Dodgers in Los Angeles on Monday.<\/p>\n