Well, this ought to be interesting.
I’ve been telling people for a few weeks that the Rockies would get to Wrigley Field with fewer than 10 wins. By losing their series finale to the Yankees at home Sunday, they accomplished that — they’re 9-44.
Also, that Sunday series finale had a rain delay of over two hours, so the Rockies didn’t arrive at their Chicago hotel until around midnight.
For more on the Rockies, here’s Samantha Bradfield, managing editor of our SB Nation Rockies site Purple Row.
If you thought the 2024 Chicago White Sox were bad, let me introduce you to the 2025 Colorado Rockies!
The Rockies are currently 9-44 and have lost 17 consecutive series to start the season – extending their franchise record. They continue to make dubious history, and some highlights (or lowlights) include these:
They are the only team in MLB that have not won a single series all season.
They have been swept seven times in 2025.
They have won consecutive games just one time this season (April 30 vs. the Atlanta Braves and May 1 at the San Francisco Giants) – notably against Cy Young winners Chris Sale and Justin Verlander.
They lost 21-0 against the San Diego Padres on May 10, which was not their worst-ever loss! (That was when they lost 25-1 to the Los Angeles Angels in 2023.)
They are currently on track to finish the season with 135 losses – 14 more than last year’s White Sox record.
Things are bleak in Denver, but there have been some shake-ups at Coors Field.
After starting the year 7-33 through their first 40 games, the Rockies dismissed longtime manager Bud Black and bench coach Mike Redmond on May 11th. Third base coach Warren Schaeffer took over at the helm, while former manager Clint Hurdle is now serving as the bench coach. (He previously served as the interim hitting coach after the Rockies fired Hensley Meulens on April 17th.) They’ve since gone 2-11, but there is a different aura around this team than there was two weeks ago.
Their best hitter at the moment is C/DH Hunter Goodman, who has been slashing .275/.325/.451 with 19 extra-base hits (11 doubles, one triple, and seven homers) in 51 games. If we’re looking at potential Rockies’ All-Stars, he might be one to keep an eye on, depending on his competition.
They have also seen seven players make their MLB debuts this year, the most in the league: right-handed pitchers Zach Agnos, Chase Dollander and Juan Mejia; left-handed pitchers Carson Palmquist and Ryan Rolison; catcher Braxton Fulford; and outfielder Zac Veen. It’s been a learning year for all of them, and we fully expect there to be more debuts as the season wears on.
As far as other updates go, Kris Bryant is currently on the Injured List for the ninth time since he joined the club in 2022. He played just 11 games in 2025 before heading to the IL again on April 14, and was transferred to the 60-day on May 11 with lumbar degenerative disc disease after having an ablation procedure performed. It’s still yet to be determined, but it might be possible that this is the last we see of KB.
They snuck a win against the New York Yankees on Friday, so we’ll see if they can reach 10 wins by June 1st!
Fun facts
In their 229-game rivalry, the Cubs have won five more games than the Rockies, 117-112. But they have been outscored by 25 runs, 1,237-1,212, having tallied 29 more runs than the Rockies at home, but 54 fewer on the road.At Chicago, the average score of games between the teams has been Cubs, 4.69; Rockies, 4.44. At Denver, it has been Rockies, 6.32; Cubs, 5.86.
The teams have combined for about nine runs per game at Wrigley Field and 12 at Mile High Stadium and Coors Field.
The Cubs have outscored the Rockies, 42-16, while sweeping three-game series at home the past two seasons. The Cubs won four straight series vs. the Rockies at home in 2012-15, going 9-4. Then they lost three series in a row, going 3-7. Since 2019, they have won four of five series, going 11-4.
(Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)
Probable pitching matchups
Monday: Jameson Taillon, RHP (3-3, 4.13 ERA, 1.094 WHIP, 5.37 FIP) vs. Carson Palmquist, LHP (0-2, 11.88 ERA, 2.520 WHIP, 7.52 FIP)
Tuesday: Cade Horton, RHP (2-0, 4.40 ERA, 1.395 WHIP, 5.24 FIP) vs. Germán Márquez, RHP (1-7, 7.66 ERA, 1.681 WHIP, 4.48 FIP)
Wednesday: Matthew Boyd, LHP (4-2, 3.42 ERA, 1.319 WHIP, 3.78 FIP) vs. Tanner Gordon, RHP (1-1, 4.38 ERA, 1.378 WHIP, 3.40 FIP)
Times & TV channels
Monday: 1:20 p.m. CT, Marquee Sports Network
Tuesday: 7:05 p.m. CT, Marquee Sports Network
Wednesday: 7:05 p.m. CT, Marquee Sports Network
Prediction
Okay, here’s the deal.
In addition to the Rockies’ 9-44 overall record, they are 3-22 away from Coors Field.
Three and twenty-two.
Their three road wins: March 29 at Tampa, 2-1 over the Rays. May 1 at San Francisco, 4-3 over the Giants. May 17 at Arizona, a wacky 14-12 win over the D-backs.
So in their three road wins, they have outscored their opponents 20-16.
In their 22 road losses they have been outscored 117-41. That’s the equivalent of losing every single one of those games by 5-2, but it’s so much worse than that. They have been shut out six times in those 22 road losses on the road, twice by 8-0, and scored one run in five other road losses. So in half of those 22 games, they’ve scored one or no runs.
I have watched a fair number of Rockies games this year. Their record reflects how terrible a team they are. Their pitching is bad, their hitting is bad, they make bad fielding plays. It seems almost impossible, but the Modern Era record for losses in a season that stood for more than 60 years until the White Sox broke it last year might be broken again.
Lastly, as noted by JohnW53, the Cubs have swept the last two series against the Rockies at Wrigley Field. And, the Rockies have played eight road series this year and been swept five times.
The Cubs will sweep this series.
Up next
For the fourth consecutive week, the Cubs have Thursday off. (There will be fewer off days in June.) Then they’ll host the Reds in a rematch of last weekend’s three-game series beginning Friday afternoon at Wrigley Field.