King Lear stands as my favorite of Shakespeare’s plays. At every step, and more and more evil, betrayal, and disaster fall on the title character, one thinks, “It can’t get worse.” Then it gets worse. The play is the anti Tom Tango; it never regresses to the mean.

The Rockies appear to be the King Lear of the 2025 season. When they were 3-17, it was tough to believe they could be worse. They won a game, then lost eight in a row. They couldn’t get worse than 4-25. They won two in a row, but then lost five to go to 6-29.

Then came today. The Tigers score nine runs off Kyle Freeland in game one of the doubleheader.* They went on to a 10-2 win. In game two, the Tigers laid it on heavier, winning 11-1. That’s a 21 to 3 day.

So if you think the Rockies can’t get worse, go read Lear.

*The beat the streak neural network picked Kerry Carpenter as the most likely hitter to get a hit in a game today, in the game against Freeland. In Freeland’s three innings, Carpenter was the only starter not to get a hit. He went 0 for 5 in the game.