Thomas Harding goes in-depth discussing what he calls the “Purple Malaise” of the Rockies tumultuous 2019 season, a stretch of baseball that started before the well-documented worst month in franchise history this past July. Thomas refers back to the mid-June series against the Padres that saw the two teams combine for a record-setting 92 runs in a four-game series.
That series split, Thomas says, is like a ghost haunting the Rockies this year. The Rox blew two big late leads, went to extra innings, and saw multiple delays. It was a physically difficult series as well as mentally draining.