The 2025 Rockies are making history. Or should we say infamy?
They lost 6-0 to the Padres on Sunday afternoon, suffering their third consecutive shutout, something the Rockies had never experienced before.
Right-hander Michael King toyed with Colorado’s feeble offense and pitched his first complete-game shutout. He allowed only two hits, a single by Michael Toglia in the fifth and a single by Ezequiel Tovar in the ninth. King retired the first 13 hitters, struck out eight and walked one.
“We’ve been carved up a little bit,” Colorado manager Bud Black told reporters in San Diego. “Their guy was pretty good today, but they outhit us and outpitched us this series. We just could not get the bats on track.”
The Rockies, coming off back-to-back 100-loss seasons, have opened 3-12, the worst 15-game start in franchise history.
San Diego, now 10-0 at Petco Park, swept the series, winning 8-0 on Friday night and 2-0 on Saturday night. The Padres’ three straight shutouts marked the first time any team has done so since Cleveland blanked Kansas City in three straight in 2017.
Colorado managed nine hits and 12 base runners in the three-game series while striking out 32 times. In all, the Rockies hit 9 for 88 in the series. They came to Petco Park with a .243 team batting average. They left hitting .218.
“For the last couple of weeks, it’s been frustrating for the guys,” Black said. “The guys have put in the work, but it’s just not translating. It’s frustrating for sure.”
Black said that the inexperience of some players is contributing to the lack of hits and the deluge of strikeouts. When asked if anything can be done, he responded: “No, this is our group. These guys have to fight through it. This is the group that I think has to continue on and keep fighting through this, and hopefully, string together some hits, get some good at-bats and put the ball in play.”
The Padres made history of their own — the positive kind — becoming just the second team in major league history to notch six shutouts in its first 16 games. Cleveland did it in 1966. All six Padres shutouts have come at Petco, where the Padres have the best home start in franchise history.
The game was decided in the first inning when the Padres scored four runs on four hits and a walk, off left-hander Kyle Freeland, who fell to 0-3 as his ERA rose to 4.88.
A two-out single by Oscar Gonzalez scored the first run, followed by another RBI single by Yuli Gurriel and a two-run double by Jose Iglesias.
Monday’s pitching matchup
Rockies RHP Antonio Senzatela (0-2, 5.14 ERA) at Dodgers Dustin May (0-1, 0.82)
8:10 p.m. Monday, Dodger Stadium
TV: Rockies.TV (streaming); Comcast/Xfinity (channel 1262); DirecTV (683); Spectrum (130, 445, 305, 435 or 445, depending on region).
Radio: 850 AM, 94.1 FM
Trending: The Rockies have scored 40 runs in 15 games to start the season, the fewest in the majors. They have scored two or fewer runs in 10 of their first 15 games.
Pitching probables
Tuesday: Rockies RHP Ryan Feltner (0-0, 2.81) at Dodgers RHP Landon Knack (1-0, 10.38)
Wednesday: Rockies RHP Germán Márquez (0-2, 4.60) at Dodgers TBA
Thursday: Off
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