The Record Nobody Wants.
Colorado is still owned by the same guy
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The Colorado Rockies have set a Major League Baseball record for the most losses ever recorded by the end of April. Could be worse, though!
I know. Trust me — we won’t stay here long.
The Rockies went 4-22 in April and are 5-25 overall, and they actually had to beat Atlanta on Wednesday to get to that. The 25 defeats do indeed set an MLB mark for most L’s taken by April 30. Of course, Colorado started the season in March, which in previous generations of baseball wasn’t really done. (The Rockies had one game postponed by snow, which you don’t see every day.)
But Colorado isn’t the team to get off the worst start in history, at least not by percentage. For that matter, plenty of rosters have turned in months that stunk worse than the Rockies’ .154 win percentage for April: