Even by Rockies standards, Colorado is playing below average. In 22 seasons before this one, the team had won 46.9 percent of its games — that’s about 74.6 wins per season.
Through Monday, after the Rockies struck out 11 times in , Colorado is 13-22.
According to the Rockies Record Tracker, that record will play out to a 60-102 record, about 15 games below their franchise average.
For comparison, similarly timed expansion teams have fared slightly better. The Arizona Diamondbacks averaged 79.7 wins before this season (and they’ve won one world championship). The Miami Marlins, who joined baseball the same year as the Rockies, entered this season with 1,643 wins — two more than Colorado. The Marlins have won two world titles.
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But back to the the here and now — the Rockies are playing something short of good baseball. And holding out hope that the averages will catch up with Colorado and wins will work out naturally, will not help.
“We have to make it turn around,” Rockies catcher Nick Hundley said in a near-empty clubhouse late Monday night.
“We can’t just sit here and hope and wish and think it’s OK. We have to play better as a team, all the way around — offensively, defensively, situationally, starters, bullpen. We have to play better — to a man.”
Hundley, who was , wasn’t coping to good-time feelings of hoorah platitudes.
“You can’t just hope it will get better or wish it will get better or say, ‘Oh, it’ll turn,’ ” he said. “No.
“It’s a tough league. Your hopes and wishes don’t mean anything. We have to play better.”
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• Rockies owner Dick Monfort on Fox Sports baseball reporter Ken Rosenthal after he asked Monfort about Troy Tulowitzki trade possibilities.
• Phillies reliever Jake Diekman, who’s played through colitis his entire career, from before Monday’s game at Coors Field. Check out his that raise awareness for kids with Crohn’s disease and colitis.
• — the “Citizen Kane” of — aired on TV Tuesday with Nuggets great Alex English in a starring role. Weird movie. There’s a shadowy villain who might as well be Ned Beatty from “Network.” And Gregory Peck as the U.S. president. The great Johnny Most calling a little league baseball game. And this awesome exchange between Chuck and his little league coach:
“I can’t play because of nuclear weapons.”
“What’s that got to do with baseball?!”
“Nothing. But it’s my best thing. I have to give up something.”
• And happy 20th birthday to — the most famous Peyton I can think of off the top of my head.
Nick Groke: ngroke@denverpost.com or twitter.com/nickgroke
