A franchise-record eight straight losses at Coors Field going into Tuesday night’s game. The worst bullpen ERA in the major leagues. And, amid a free-fall from first to fourth in a matter of three weeks, playoff hopes that are already dwindling late in the first half of the season.
Are the Rockies (34-38) seeing what everyone else is seeing? At six games back of the first-place Diamondbacks in a division they’ll likely have to win to return to the postseason, are they worried they’re about to fall into the baseball abyss with no chance of returning until next spring?