• Rockies fall to 8-42, worst 50-game start in 130 years

• Phillies sweep Colorado, finish 7-0 in season series

• Colorado on pace for 136 losses after eighth shutout

The Colorado Rockies dropped to 8-42 on Thursday following a 2-0 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies, cementing the worst 50-game start to a season in Major League Baseball’s modern era.

Not since the 1895 Louisville Colonels, who began 7-43, has a team opened a season this poorly. The Rockies are now on pace to lose 136 games, which would surpass the all-time record of 134 defeats set by the 1899 Cleveland Spiders. The 2024 Chicago White Sox set the modern-era mark last season with 121 losses.