Numbers show how historically bad Rockies are even after beating Yankees

Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Greg Joyce about the inside buzz on the Yankees.DENVER — It is not unusual for an unmistakable smell to be wafting around these parts.But this is a different kind of stench, even for the Mile High City: It is the Colorado Rockies, owners of a dumbfounding 9-42 record — 8-42 before they beat the Yankees on Friday night — whose biggest accomplishment has been making the astonishingly terrible 2024 White Sox not look so bad.The Yankees arrived here Friday to face a Rockies team whose 42 losses through its first 50 games were the most for a major league team in the modern era, going back to 1901.

Even after Friday’s win, they were on pace for a whopping 29 wins — as in 29-133, which would rival the 1899 Cleveland Spiders (134) for the most losses in a major league season.Last year’s White Sox finished 41-121 — one of those wins, a 12-2 shellacking, coming against the Yankees — breaking the 1962 Mets record (120) for the most losses in the modern era.Through 50 games, they were 15-35, seven games ahead of these Rockies.“Obviously, it’s been a tough start to the season for them, no other way to put it,” manager Aaron Boone said before Friday’s game.

“That being said, for those of us who have been around this game for a long, long time — it’s baseball.Anything can happen on any given night.”The last time the Rockies made the playoffs, DJ LeMahieu was part of their core with Nolan Arenado, Trevor Story and Charlie Blackmon in 2018.

LeMahieu signed with the Yankees that offseason, and the Rockies are an MLB-worst 368-552 since then.“I feel like I made a pretty good choice,” LeMahieu said with a grin.“I’m happy to be here.” In 16 series this season, the Rockies have been swept in eight of them.

They have lost two of three games in the other half.The Rockies had scored the second-fewest runs per game (3.28) and allowed the most (6.46).The...