With the Dodgers having been swept in three games by the last-place Colorado Rockies and no closer to the division title than they were the day before, A.J. Ellis forced a smile.
"Have we ever done anything easy in your time watching us?" Ellis asked.
The magic number for the Dodgers to win the National League West remained at two Sunday, when they lost for the seventh time in nine games, this time by a score of 12-5 at Coors Field.
The Dodgers will next play a four-game series in a stadium where they have failed to win a single game this season: AT&T Park, home of the second-place San Francisco Giants.