DENVER _ It is rare, almost difficult, to reach offensive lows at Coors Field.
Maybe it was because the Padres had been so high.
What happened the past two days certainly wasn't what was expected of these new Padres, who wear brown and arrived in Colorado wearing down opposing pitchers.
But here they were. Might as well have been wearing blue.
They appeared flat for much of the weekend, as if a wild week had taken a toll.
A four-run eighth inning and another run tacked on in the ninth helped make Sunday seem less degenerative, as they clawed part of the way back from an eight-run deficit before falling 9-6 to the Rockies.
The Padres (6-4) are in their first losing streak of the young season and in two days have fallen from first to third place in the National League West _ with the seven-time defending division champion Dodgers headed to Petco Park for games the next three days.
The Padres led the majors with an average of 6.2 runs a game after winning the opener 8-7 here Friday.
They scored two runs in the next 16 innings.
Rockies starter Antonio Senzatela on Sunday allowed them one run on four hits. That followed Kyle Freeland giving up two hits over six shutout innings Saturday.
For much of Sunday's game, the Padres couldn't even do what the Rockies did and stick their bats out and send balls floating like candy wrappers through the thin air.
Not that the Rockies didn't hit any balls hard. The home team simply took advantage of a number of Coors Field specials.
Daniel Murphy did so in the second inning, starting off his four-hit day by popping up a home run off the top of the right field wall. Former Padre Matt Kemp hit an elevated change-up a little harder in the fourth inning, sending his second homer in two games 404 feet and just inside the left field foul pole for a two-run shot.
Those were two of the Rockies' three hits off Zach Davies (1-1) in five innings.
Ryan McMahon charged a Tim Hill fastball 427 feet and just over the wall in center field in the sixth, and the Rockies added four runs off Javy Guerra in the seventh.
That's how it goes here.
Teams scored an average of 6.4 runs a game last year at Coors Field. The massive ballpark at 5,280 feet above sea level dispenses base hits and homers like no other ballpark in the majors.
Not for the Padres this weekend.
They had three hits Saturday and seven Sunday, three of them in the eighth inning after they had fallen behind 9-1.
Three of the four runs they scored in the eighth inning came on Wil Myers' bases-loaded triple.
The outburst couldn't be entirely discounted by the fact it came a mile high. It was, after all, the sixth time this season the Padres scored four or more runs in an inning.
Josh Naylor tripled on the first pitch of the ninth inning and scored on Ty France's groundout.
