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Coming into Thursday evening, the Colorado Rockies had winning records against four of the 30 MLB teams, the Washington Nationals, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Minnesota Twins, and the Miami Marlins.
Well, scratch that against the Marlins. Despite a ninth inning breath of life from Colorado, they were swept by Miami this round, evening the season series at 3-3. There are also two teams that Colorado will be facing for the first time in their last nine games, both out of the AL West, with the division-bottom Los Angeles Angels in town Friday night for a three-game series that will be the Rox last home games of the season, followed by a trip to see the AL West-leading Seattle Mariners for three, and then wrapping up with their last three games in San Francisco against the division rival Giants, who have flat-out pummeled the Rockies this year. Even if the Rockies were to sweep the Giants this go-round, they’d still lose that season series.
For those of you counting, that means Colorado is assured of losing the season series against 23 of their 29 MLB competitors, a number they could easily make 25 in the next 10 days. Colorado, like the Angels, is at the bottom of their division. But there are different bottoms when it comes to these Dante-esque levels, and the Rockies are flirting with the Treachery level in this last week-and-a-half. To wit:
The Angels, while at the “bottom”, are only 15 games out of first with very little season left. That’s the narrowest margin in any of the six divisions, and while it’s nothing to crow about, they have played decent ball off and on throughout the year. The other AL bottom-feeders, the Baltimore Orioles and Chicago White Sox, are 17 and 28 games out of the leads of their divisions.
Over in the NL, the East and Central lowlights belong to the Washington Nationals and Pittsburgh Pirates, each a full 29 games back of their division leaders. Each of the other five southernmost-standings teams have seen some glimmers of light in their seasons.
If the Rockies have seen many glimmers, more than half of them seem to be from the team seemingly trying to set itself on fire on occasion. Colorado’s bottom is a different sort of a number, with last night’s fifth loss in a row dropping them 44.5 back of the NL West-leading Dodgers. Even last season’s worst-in-the-modern-era White Sox have 16 more wins than Colorado has mustered this year. And if the Rockies – losers of their last five straight – don’t find a way to win any of these last nine, they’ll tie those White Sox in ignominy, a scant 360-some days later. Cripes.
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There have been moments of glory for Colorado this year, though they are rarely even game-long bouts of happiness. More something akin to the odd firework going off in the form of a kid hitting a hot streak at the plate or a scintillating centerfield snag. But enough joy to carry them to a W? Rare stuff indeed.
What is not rare is the fans still attending the ballpark. While the team has expanded capacity, the fact that they will outdraw the Rockies club that made the World Series 18 years back is both mind-numbing and mind-blowing. For all the things not working, the Rooftop sure seems to be. Maybe it’s too high up to actually be able to see the level of baseball being played.
The team is frustrated, and hoping like hell to not be tied for the worst record ever. They are already assured of their third triple-digit loss season in a row. Maybe they can take two out of three from the Angels, Mariners, or (gulp) Giants. Maybe they can simply get one out of nine. The time for the backbone to appear is growing short, and even if they swept their way out, they’d be the losing-est baseball team that Colorado has ever seen. No Rocktober this time around. But a .111 record in these last nine still keeps their names out of the history books. The fact that that’s the last cliffhanger in their bumpiest season yet is maybe the worst news of all. Give ’em hell, Rockies. Or at least enough heck to squeeze one more out.
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