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Rockies Set Painful Record for Most Whiffs in a Game

They went down swinging.

Josh Wilson

Charlie Blackmon of the Colorado Rockies
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The Colorado Rockies kept it close on Sunday, ultimately losing 5–4 to the San Francisco Giants. While the scoreline was tight, their offensive effort came with a lowlight stat that set a pretty unpleasant record.

The Rockies, according to Opta, had the most whiffs (swings and misses) in a game since the data became available over 25 years ago.

Amazingly, the Rockies and Giants both struck out 11 times in the game, but four different Rockies had two strikeouts in the game. Their proclivity to swing and miss helped the Giants keep their pitch count down, with San Francisco only throwing 144 to Colorado's 173.

The Rockies have the second-highest strikeout rate in MLB at 25.8%. They sit 25 games back in the NL West.

Fans had reactions ranging from anger to good old fashioned sarcasm:

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Josh Wilson
JOSH WILSON

Josh Wilson is the news director of the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in 2024, he worked for FanSided in a variety of roles, most recently as senior managing editor of the brand’s flagship site. He has also served as a general manager of Sportscasting, the sports arm of a start-up sports media company, where he oversaw the site’s editorial and business strategy. Wilson has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from SUNY Cortland and a master’s in accountancy from the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois. He loves a good nonfiction book and enjoys learning and practicing Polish. Wilson lives in Chicago but was raised in upstate New York. He spent most of his life in the Northeast and briefly lived in Poland, where he ate an unhealthy amount of pastries for six months.

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