It’s no secret that the Colorado Rockies are a bad baseball team. Their 8-26 record ties them with the Chicago White Sox for the worst in all of Major League Baseball, and they are the only team in the league yet to win a series or even string together consecutive wins. The Rockies only on Friday snapped an MLB record streak of 31 consecutive games trailing at some point to start the season.
After being swept by fellow bottom feeders the Miami Marlins—twice in walk-off fashion—and a team meeting was called, general manager Bill Schmidt came to the defense of his team and coaching staff in an interview with Patrick Saunders of the Denver Post.