The Rockies are staring at the end of another lost season, and the numbers behind it are ugly enough to land them in a pair of bleak corners of MLB history.
Colorado enters the final game of the 2026 season at 58-103, 41 games back of the Los Angeles Dodgers and as the only team already sitting on 100 losses. That alone tells the story of the year. The history attached to it makes it worse.
USA Today’s Bob Nightengale reported that the Rockies have joined the mid-1960s New York Mets in one dubious category. “They became just the fifth MLB franchise to lose at least 100 games in four consecutive seasons, last done by the expansion New York Mets (1962-65),” Nightengale writes.
That puts Colorado in company no franchise wants. The Rockies went 59-103 in 2023, 61-101 in 2024 and 43-119 in 2025 before piling up 100 losses again this year with one game left.
The second piece of history is even harsher. Nightengale also noted, “They will go down in history as the first team to post the highest ERA in five consecutive seasons while also losing at least 100 games in four consecutive years.”
It’s a stat with a sharp edge, even if it’s built from a very specific slice of the record book. Still, it underscores just how consistently rough the Rockies have been over the past five seasons.
With one game remaining in 2026, Colorado has allowed 940 runs. The previous four seasons were just as punishing on the pitching side: 1,021 runs allowed in 2025, 929 in 2024, 957 in 2023 and 873 in 2022.
Put together, the two streaks paint a miserable picture. The Rockies aren’t just having a bad year. They’ve spent years stacking up the kind of numbers that leave a franchise in the wrong part of history.
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