DENVER — In a fitting end to a historically bad first half, the Rockies lost to the worst team in baseball.

Colorado, the National League cellar-dweller, fell 5-3 to the American League chump Chicago White Sox in the series opener on Friday at Guaranteed Rate Field.

Brenton Doyle and Michael Toglia both homered, but that wasn’t enough as Chicago tagged Dakota Hudson for five earned runs in five innings. Four of those came when the wheels came off in the sixth, and the Rockies only mustered three hits.

Here’s a look at Colorado’s atrocious first 81 games, which has the Rockies (27-54) on pace for 108 losses that would top last season’s franchise-worst 103-loss debacle. Colorado’s .333 winning percentage is a new club record for the lowest first-half winning percentage, topping the 1993 and 2005 teams that were 28-53.

—Playing With Infamy

The bad omens started on opening day, when the Rockies were ripped 16-1 in Arizona, the worst season-opening loss in club history.

In that defeat, the Diamondbacks scored 14 runs on 13 hits in a never-ending third inning that’s the most of both tallies in a single frame in franchise history.

The ugly loss helped ensure Colorado would never sniffed the .500 mark in the first half.

The Rockies trailed in each of their first 31 games to start the season, surpassing the 1910 St. Louis Browns’ streak of 28 for the longest such drought to begin a season in the Modern Era.

Even after that was snapped on May 3 in Pittsburgh, it took another week for the Rockies to finally win two games in a row. That came May 10, breaking the streak of 51 games without back-to-back victories going back to ’23, and 37 in ’24. Both stretches are franchise lows.

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