Rockies set record with 50th loss after Mets sweep
The sweep extends their losing streak to 19 series and breaks the MLB modern era record for the fasted team to reach 50 losses.
Baseball history has never seen a team like the 2025 Colorado Rockies. First, they become the worst MLB team ever in Modern Era through 42 games, starting 7-33. Then, they become the first team ever to lose the first 19 series of a season. Now, the Rockies have officially become the fastest team in Modern Era to reach 50 losses after a sweep from the New York Mets last weekend.
It’s the tenth time they’ve been swept this year, eighth straight loss and leaves the team with a final record of 4-28 in the month of May.
Game One
The biggest storyline headed into the series opener was the long-awaited debut of Thairo Estrada, who Colorado signed this offseason in free agency. Estrada was a noteworthy addition and had a .348 career batting average at Coors Field. In his first game back after suffering a fractured right wrist in spring training, he went 0-for-3 but got hit by a pitch in the sixth inning and ended up coming around to score.
After a week of rest, Kyle Freeland made his 12th start of 2025, which is tied for most in the National League. He completed six innings for the third time in May and only gave up three runs, with two coming from the home run ball.
After falling down 3-0, the Rockies crawled back in the sixth and seventh innings courtesy of a Ryan McMahon RBI double and a Sam Hilliard solo home run. Hilliard made his first appearance of 2025 on Friday after beginning the year in Triple-A. He’d shift around the outfield on defense and finish the series with four hits.
Calling up Hilliard forced Nick Martini to be designated for assignment and 22-year-old Adael Amador sent back to Albuquerque.
In the bottom of the eighth inning, New York’s Francisco Lindor pieced together his second homer of the afternoon, putting away the Rockies 4-2.
Game Two
Before Saturday’s game, the club announced that they demoted first basemen Michael Toglia to Triple-A to call-up infielder Keston Hiura. Toglia hasn’t been himself this year with a .194 average and a MLB-worst 81 strikeouts. The 26-year-old has a great power swing, thriving at altitude hitting 26 homers last year, but had only six across his 54 games in 2025.
Hiura spent four years in the majors from 2019-22 with the Milwaukee Brewers playing first and second base. He had a very strong rookie year with a .938 OPS and joined the Rockies as a free agent last January.
Colorado only scored two runs off three hits in game two, one of which was Estrada’s first RBI single with the team. Ezequiel Tovar put them on the board in the first after he leaned into his third home run of the year, but that was enough for Mets’ starter Kodai Senga to get comfortable and lock into autopilot.
He’d continue his incredible season by rolling the Rockies through six and a third innings, toting his ERA to 1.60 which leads the National League.
It was a different story for Antonio Senzatela, who hasn’t put together a good start since mid-April. He gave up seven runs in four innings, crossing his ERA over seven for the first time this year. (7.14) Rockies lose 8-2.
Game Three
Orlando Arcia, the new infielder Colorado signed last week, earned his first home run in purple to start the scoring in the third. But, rookie Carson Palmquist – who’s only getting four days in between starts – let the lead slip after a three run bomb from Pete Alonso. Palmquist ended with a career-high eight strikeouts while allowing four runs over 4.2 innings.
“That was his best start yet,” interim manager Warren Schaeffer said about the freshman’s act. “Eight punches, five on the heater, I think he’s just getting more comfortable with who he is, which is what we want to see.”
On Sunday, the Mets gave the Rockies the experience that they poured $1.16 billion into, with home runs from Alonso, Lindor and Juan Soto. New York finished with just five hits but had the long ball working, closing out the 5-3 victory and completing the sweep.
The 9-50 Rockies have an upcoming opportunity to win their first series of the year after taking game one against the 23-35 Miami Marlins on June 2. It’s the first series they’ve played that isn’t against a team above .500 since the Atlanta Braves in late-April, with the first pitch of game two on Tuesday, June 3 at 4:40 p.m. MT.