The 2026 Colorado Rockies are bad, but they’re also the most exciting team in baseball
Jun 25, 2026, 4:20 PM
The Colorado Rockies are 32-49, dead last in the NL West and 20 games behind the Dodgers. They own the worst ERA in Major League Baseball at 5.48 and have been outscored by 90 runs on the season. None of this is unusual. What is unusual is that they also just had the single wildest homestand in recent memory — and it’s not particularly close.
In a span of four games at Coors Field last week, the Rockies beat Paul Skenes on an inside-the-park home run by Jake McCarthy — only the second leadoff inside-the-parker in franchise history — then strung together eight consecutive hits over the final two innings against the Red Sox to pull off a walk-off triple, then exploded for a franchise-record 23 runs on 24 hits and six home runs in a 23-9 demolition of the Athletics. McCarthy’s bases-clearing walk-off triple made him the first player since Grady Sizemore in 2006 to hit a walk-off triple while trailing by two runs.
The numbers tell the story of a team living two lives. At home the Rockies are 18-22, a respectable .450 clip that would have them in the middle of most divisions. On the road they’re 14-27, a .341 mark that places them among the worst traveling teams in the sport. They rank 12th in MLB in runs scored — ahead of the Braves and Yankees — but dead last in runs allowed. They can hit. They simply cannot stop anyone else from hitting.
“That was surreal. It still hasn’t sunk in,” McCarthy said after the walk-off. He’s not wrong. The 2026 Rockies are not good. But they are, on any given night at 20th and Blake, the most unpredictable ticket in baseball.
