400 Losses in Four Years: The Rockies Wrote Their Own Kind of History This Week

The Colorado Rockies reached the century mark again on Tuesday night, and there was no drama in how they got there. Arizona tagged them for 13 hits in a 7-2 Diamondbacks win at Coors Field, the Rockies mustered three hits, and the count ticked to 100 losses for the fourth consecutive season.

Wednesday's 5-3 defeat made it 101. With the season down to its final four games, Colorado sits at 57-101 — a .361 winning percentage and a minus-184 run differential that has been built on 916 runs allowed against just 732 scored.

The number worth sitting with isn't 100. It's the four-year total. Per ESPN, the Rockies are just the fifth club in MLB history to lose at least 100 games in four straight seasons, and the first to do it since the Mets from 1962 through 1965. That's not a slump. That's an organizational identity.

The final Coors Field chapter

Thursday's game against Arizona is the last home date of 2026, and it doubles as the likely final Coors Field start of Kyle Freeland's Rockies tenure. The Denver native was reinstated from the 15-day IL to make his 24th start of the season — he has since made a 25th — and he carries a 4-11 record with a 6.58 ERA over 131.1 innings. He has allowed 27 home runs and posted a 1.52 WHIP.

That his potentially final act as a Rockie came in a loss that pushed the team to 100 was, as one recap put it, a dubious thud. Freeland isn't the only one approaching a milestone in this series; the club has flagged him, McCarthy, Rumfield and Goodman as players within reach of personal marks, which is roughly what "reasons to watch" looks like in a 101-loss September.

The pitching is the story, not the bats

Here's the part that keeps tripping people up. Colorado's offense isn't the disaster the record suggests. The Rockies hit .252 with a .322 on-base percentage and a .736 OPS this season, with 170 home runs and 102 stolen bases. Compare that to Arizona — a team still alive in the playoff chase at 84-74 — and Colorado actually has the better batting line (.736 OPS vs. .710, .322 OBP vs. .315).

The gap is entirely on the mound. The Rockies carry a 5.58 team ERA and a 1.49 WHIP, against Arizona's 4.03 and 1.208. Colorado has allowed 174 home runs, walked 388 batters and used 22 pitchers. The bullpen hasn't been the primary culprit either — its 4.57 ERA is a full run better than the rotation's overall mark, but it has converted just nine saves while blowing nine more, which tells you how rarely leads even reach the ninth.

Recent form makes it starker. Over the last 13 games the Rockies went 2-11, outscored 86-49. Over the last five, the offense collapsed to a .220 average and a .608 OPS while the ERA sat at 4.40 — a genuinely decent pitching stretch wasted by an offense that stopped hitting.

What it means for 2027

MLB Trade Rumors' offseason outlook is blunt: the Rockies "won't be trying to compete in 2027," and the central question is how aggressively they shop the major-league roster. Kris Bryant remains on the books for $52MM through 2028 and is on the 60-day IL. Chase Dollander, Willi Castro, Tyler Freeman, Sean Sullivan and Jeff Criswell are all unavailable, and the club's composite power rating sits 28th at -1.44.

That's the reality facing this front office. The Rockies have spent four years proving they can lose 100 games. The harder work — the part that determines whether Year Five looks any different — starts the moment this last home series ends.