How LoDo can Rockies go? Padres blast five homers in 21-0 win at Coors Field

Did the Rockies lose again Saturday night Is the Pope an American Catholic In fact lose is a misnomer The Rockies were crushed - by the Padres in the Rockies worst championship in what is briskly becoming the worst season in franchise history The Padres ripped off hits including five home runs Colorado s comatose offense countered with five hits A lively crowd of a great number of of them Padres fans presented up to watch the carnage The fans did The Wave in the sixth inning It was impressive At least they had a good time And the fans had a great time cheering veteran catcher Jacob Stallings who was called on to pitch two crisis innings Stallings genuinely struck out former Rockies catcher Elias Diaz in the ninth Stallings gave up one run on two hits Before Saturday s meeting general manager Bill Schmidt addressed the state of the club I feel for the fans I feel for the people around here Schmidt mentioned I know we are better than we have played but we are not good right now We have to battle through it and get to the other side But right now it looks like the Rockies will have to climb Mount Everest to reach the other side In losing their eighth consecutive championship Colorado fell to - keeping pace with the infamous Baltimore Orioles for the worst start after games in the Modern Era since The O s opened their season with consecutive losses Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Bradley Blalock works against the San Diego Padres in the first inning of a baseball challenge Saturday May in Denver AP Photo David Zalubowski There were no key moments in the Padres mastery they got rolling with a five-run first inning and kept going San Diego didn t stop scoring until the seventh inning when veteran right-hander Tyler Kinley certainly shut the door Here is a synopsis of the Padres Home Run Derby Gavin Sheets hit a two-run homer off Colorado right-hander Bradley Blaylock in the first Jake Cronenworth led off the third with a solo homer off Blaylock Jason Heyward launched a three-run homer off Blaylock in the fourth to make it - Xander Bogaerts led off the fifth with a liner into the left-field seats off reliever Juan Mejia Fernando Tatis Jr drove a three-run homer to left also in the fifth to increase the Padres lead to - Blaylock making his third start of the season second since getting called up from Triple-A Albuquerque on May was charged with runs on hits over innings His ERA soared to Saturday marked the seventh consecutive meeting the Rockies gave up eight or more runs setting a dubious franchise record Related Articles Rockies GM Bill Schmidt backs Bud Black says crew capable of doing better Renck Disappointed humbled Rockies Zac Veen back on right track in Triple-A Grading The Week Dick Monfort s Rockies almost made Kyle Freeland cry Join the club Rockies offense comes alive but it s not enough in - loss to Padres Tigers sweep sloppy Rockies in doubleheader by combined - margin Want more Rockies news Sign up for the Rockies Insider to get all our MLB analysis