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In all games, the Colorado Rockies season appears to be getting worse. And the day after a historically bad loss, the team parted ways with manager Bad Black.
Despite snapping an eight-game losing streak in Sunday’s 9-3 victory, Black “was released from his duties” after compiling a 543-690 record since being nominated as manager in 2017.
Rockies owner, chairman and CEO Dick Monfort called the team’s performance this season “unacceptable.”
“Our fans deserve better and we have better abilities,” Monfort said in a statement. “We all share our responsibility for how this season unfolds, but these changes are necessary. We can use the rest of 2025 to improve potential locations on the field, evaluate all areas of operations, and turn the page into the next chapter of Rockies baseball.”
Along with Black, bench coach Mike Redmond was also fired, and Monfort thanked him for his “contributions to the team over the last eight years.”
3 Base coach Warren Schafer was appointed interim manager until the end of the season.
7-33, they tied the Baltimore Orioles in 1988 and endured the worst start of the season. Before that, we need to go back to the modern day of baseball, back to the 1884 Kansas City Cowboys and the 1876 Cincinnati Reds, find another team with such a bad record this season.
And on Saturday they had another historically bad night, succumbing to a 21-0 loss against the San Diego Padres at Coorsfield.
It was the Rockies’ worst shutout loss in history, the Padres’ biggest winning margin, and the shyness of the league’s biggest shutout victory since at least 1900.
Padres pitcher Stephen Collect made history with the biggest shutout ever, comparable to the Red Ruff in 1939 and Ed Sheaver’s record for the biggest individual shutout in 1901.
“I actually feel pretty good right now,” Korek then celebrated him with cool water. “It’s great, I’m just grateful.”
And that could have been even worse for the Rockies. At the top of the six innings, the Padres had already taken a 20-0 lead and had spent the course trying both the MLB records of runs in the game (30) and hits (33). As it was, San Diego finished with 21 runs and 24 hits.
“You feel a lot of people, right?” Rockies general manager Bill Schmidt told reporters on Saturday before the franchise losses. “Because there are so many people who care, you keep trying to crush it, and that’s all you can do.
“We know it’s better than we played. We’re not good now. We have to fight through it and go out to the other side.”
The Rockies were stepped in due course with injuries to key players like Gold Gloves’ Shortstop Ezekiel Tval in 2024 and former NL MVP Chris Bryant.
“We have to get people back. That’s a big deal. We try to endure the storm,” Schmidt added.
Their losses this season are so biased that they allow 134 more runs than they scored, with 65 worse than the closest team in MLB.
The Rockies’ struggle came after the Chicago White Sox lost 121 games last season, setting the most lossless record of the modern season of baseball. At the moment, the Rockies are on track even in its tally, but of course there’s still a long way to go.
