The Colorado Rockies and Ezequiel Tovar square off against Pete Crow-Armstrong and the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday, in the final game of a three-game series at Wrigley Field. The Cubs are fourth-best in MLB action with 78 total home runs. The Rockies rank 26th in Major League Baseball with just 46 home runs as a team.

The Rockies have nine wins in their first 54 games of the season. It is a historically bad start. And yet somehow, that record flatters them.

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The Rockies played one of their more solid games of a rickety season, got an excellent start from German Marquez, and four stellar innings from their bullpen. But they fell, 4-3, to the Cubs in 11 innings at chilly Wrigley Field and extended the worst start in MLB’s modern era to 9-46.

1. The Rockies are one of just two teams since 1901 to have fewer than 10 wins in their first 55 games, joining the 1904 Washington Senators. Colorado did manage to avoid the major league record, as the 1895 Louisville Colonels mustered only eight wins in their first 55 games of the year.

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