Rockies lose again in Miami, fall to 7-23

New month, same awful Rockies.

The Colorado club that is becoming nearly impossible to watch lost again on Wednesday, dropping to 7-23 in the club’s worst-ever 30-game start.

In the 4-1 defeat in Game 2 in Miami, the Rockies wasted a strong outing by Dakota Hudson and, in a familiar refrain, lacked a clutch hit. They mustered just four hits overall, and also committed two errors while making the Marlins, the National League’s other hopeless cellar-dweller, look good.

Hudson threw 5 2/3 innings, with the damage coming in the fifth off a Luis Arráez RBI single and a Bryan De La Cruz RBI double. After that, Jake Bird got Colorado out of the sixth and threw a scoreless seventh, but then Nick Mears was dinged for two runs in the eighth off Dane Myers’ two-RBI single.

As Miami plated those four runs, all the Rockies offense could muster was Elias Diaz’s RBI groundout in the sixth. Colorado only had one extra-base hit, a double by Ryan McMahon in the sixth, and was 0 for 4 with runners in scoring position.

With the defeat, Colorado lost another series, giving the Rockies nine series defeats and one series split in 10 tries. That extends the longest stretch to open a season without winning a series in franchise history.

In Wednesday’s loss, the Rockies — who on Tuesday became the first team since 1900 to trail in each of its first 29 games while blowing a 5-0 ninth-inning lead in the series opener — matched another franchise low.

By trailing in all 30 games this year, this club tied the Colorado record for trailing in consecutive games at any point in a season, set in a dismal stretch from June 15 to July 20 in 1998.

Next up on the infamy list: Colorado is approaching the franchise record for games without a consecutive win, set at 35 in May and June in 2022.

The series concludes with a matinee on Thursday before the Rockies head to Pittsburgh to finish their road trip.