For a Rockies’ road trip that started on a high note with a win in Milwaukee, the final four games felt like reverberations from 2025.
After losing the final two games of the Brewers series, Colorado dropped both in San Diego on Tuesday and Wednesday to fall to a season-low 25-games below .500 at 42-67. With that, the Rockies continue to play like a little brother to the Padres, especially on the road.
San Diego’s won seven straight series against the Rockies, including eight consecutive victories at Petco Park and 14 of the last 15 there with a +55 run differential. The Padres are now 18-4 against Colorado since the start of the 2025 season, a better winning percentage against LoDo’s club than even the vaunted, two-time defending World Series champion Dodgers (18-5).
The Rockies haven’t won a series against the Padres since Aug. 16-18, 2024, at Coors Field, and their last series win in San Diego was May 13-15, 2024, a three-game sweep.
Defensive miscues were the story in the series opener at Petco Park, as Colorado committed four errors for the second time this season in an 8-7 loss. Colorado’s 20 errors this month ranks last in the majors.
Padres leadoff man Fernando Tatis Jr. owned the Rockies pitchers in a 5 for 5 performance, raking all singles in the first five-hit game of his career, and homers by Willi Castro and Mickey Moniak were negated by Xander Bogaerts’ walk-off sacrifice fly. It was San Diego’s third walk-off against Colorado this season (also April 9 via Bogaerts’ walk-off grand slam, and Gavin Sheets’ three-run homer the next night).
Then on Wednesday, Colorado lost 3-1, with the lone San Diego damage coming in the fourth inning when the home team loaded the bases with no outs against rookie Gabriel Hughes. The right-hander eventually escaped without the wheels completely falling off, and finished with five innings pitched before the bullpen threw three shutout frames.
Brett Sullivan’s RBI single in the seventh accounted for the Rockies’ lone run as the Colorado offense fell flat against a sextet of San Diego pitchers. Colorado now needs to go 21-32 to avoid becoming the fifth MLB franchise with four straight seasons of triple-digit losses.
Wednesday’s defeat dropped the Rockies to 3-13 in rubber matches this season, a .188 winning percentage that’s last in the majors.
Colorado is off on Thursday before returning to LoDo for a six-game homestand: Three games against the Royals from Friday through Sunday, followed by three games against the American League East-leading Rays from Monday through Wednesday.
