Of all of the numbers which have illustrated simply how traditionally dangerous the Colorado Rockies have been to start out the 2025 season, there may be one other file the franchise is approaching that’s head-shaking as effectively.
With the 13-5 win by the New York Mets on Sunday afternoon that secured a three-game sweep over the Rockies at Coors Discipline, Colorado’s pitchers allowed a minimum of one run of their 184th consecutive recreation. Not solely is that an ongoing franchise file, however it’s additionally the fifth-longest streak in fashionable MLB historical past (relationship again to 1901).
The St. Louis Browns allowed runs in 199 consecutive video games from June 22, 1939, to July 31, 1940, to set the all-time mark. Proper behind them is the Oakland A’s, who went 198 video games and not using a shutout between April 7, 1997, and Might 17, 1998.
Colorado now owns the fifth- and sixth-longest scored-upon streaks on the listing. The Rockies recorded the franchise’s first-ever shutout on April 13, 1994, ending a streak of 169 video games that started with its inaugural recreation on April 5, 1993.
The present runs-allowed streak by the Rockies may have already blown previous the Browns had it not been for the staff’s lone shutout of 2024, an 8-0 highway victory over the San Diego Padres on Might 15. Previous to that, Colorado’s final shutout occurred on August 6, 2023, in a 1-0 highway win over the St. Louis Cardinals, the final of six blankings posted in the course of the 2023 marketing campaign.
Colorado entered Monday’s off day with a collective 5.53 ERA, the second-highest mark amongst MLB’s 30 groups (solely the Athletics are increased at 5.68).
Colorado’s largest drawback on the mound this 12 months, nevertheless, has been its beginning pitching. Rockies starters have mixed for an MLB-high 6.62 ERA, greater than a run increased than the staff instantly above them within the rankings (Miami Marlins at 5.45).
On Tuesday, Colorado begins a three-game sequence towards the San Francisco Giants at Coors Discipline, the place the Rockies are simply 6-25 this 12 months. At 12-53 general, the Rockies are tied with the 1932 Boston Pink Sox for the worst begin to a season since 1901.
