MIAMI — You hear it from major leaguers all the time: "It's a long season ... this is just one game of 162."
Fair enough.
But that does nothing to change the reality of the Rockies' performance in a 6-0 loss to the Miami Marlins Thursday night in front of an announced crowd of 18,003.
The Rockies were bad as they were shut out for the third time this season.
Perhaps it was the cross-country flight that put them into Miami at 1:30 a.m., but the Rockies were lifeless.
Take left-hander Chris Rusin's lackluster start, and in a sloppy error in right field by Carlos Gonzalez and tack on an offense that managed just five hits, and it equaled one of their worst games of the Rockies' season.