Before the finale of their three-game series in Colorado the Rockies decided to fire manager Bud Black. In more than eight years at the helm the former Padres skipper and San Diego State product probably won more games than he should have given the lack of talent the organization gave him to work with.

It was the Rockies’ eighth straight defeat and they are 6-33, the worst 39-game start since the 1988 Baltimore Orioles opened with the same record.