The Rockies’ past ace and their proclaimed future one couldn’t save them from matching franchise infamy on Thursday at Kauffman Stadium.

It was a gut-wrenching, gut-punching, gut-churning kind of loss.

However bad you think the Rockies are, they have been worse.

In Game 2, Colorado eked out two runs in the fourth, and one more in the eighth, but it was enough because relievers Jake Bird, Zach Agnos and Tyler Kinley blanked the Nats for the final three innings. The Nationals took the first game, 3-2.

Kris Bryant can’t play baseball right now, and he’s unsure when he’ll be able to play again. Some days, he said, he can barely move.

During his introductory press conference, Clint Hurdle went out of his way to say that he’s returned to help out Bud Black.