Dodgers Reeling as Rockies Roll, 4-1 : Baseball: They can’t seem to do anything right in losing sixth in a row, four to expansion Colorado.

No expansion club had swept a four-game series on the road against an established team until Thursday, when the Colorado Rockies beat the Dodgers, 4-1, at Dodger Stadium to secure that dubious honor.

For the Rockies, it was a case of quiet jubilation, especially since this success came against a team they feel somewhat of a rivalry with. But for the Dodgers, the debacle merely contributed to the frustration the team has endured during a six-game losing streak that somehow seems longer than that.

“Yes, this is the lowest point of the season,” outfielder Brett Butler said. “It’s like, you’ve got the car, and you have all four wheels, and you are on the right road. But the bolts aren’t on tight and the wheels fall off, and now we can’t even find the bolts to put the wheels back on.”

Manager Tom Lasorda, who until this week had been fairly mellow in postgame interviews, put it this way: “Plain and simple as the nose on your face, we just did not hit the ball. One of their (pitchers) hadn’t won since June.”

From the outset Thursday, the Dodgers looked like last season’s team, bumbling through a three-error first inning that handed the Rockies three runs. Colorado starter Willie Blair (5-9) had won one of his last six decisions but he seemed to have an easy time holding the Dodgers to one run and seven hits in his first complete game.

Twice Mike Piazza and Jose Offerman were stranded in scoring position as the Dodger offense continued to struggle. In the four games against Colorado, the team batted .208 and scored seven runs.

Orel Hershiser (8-12) lost his third consecutive game, even though he gave up only five hits in seven innings. Three of the four runs he gave up were unearned.

“I didn’t play here last year but I heard that all the games were just like this one,” said Cory Snyder, who was hitless in four at-bats and snapped a seven-game hitting streak. “I know it was like this when I played against the Dodgers. They would have runners on base and then, bam, the next guy comes up and hits into a double play or a line drive is snagged. I don’t know what to make of it.”

Thursday’s loss dropped the Dodgers 19 1/2 games behind the San Francisco Giants and put them at .500 (57-57) for the first time since May 25. It is the first time the Dodgers had been swept in a four-game series at home since Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 1985, by the Philadelphia Phillies.

Still, Lasorda said he is planning no lineup changes.

“These are the guys we have been using all the time, these are the guys who have to do it,” he said.

Lasorda had met with the team Wednesday, and the players had their own meeting afterward, but Snyder said: “There are only so many meetings you can have, we just have to do it.”

Before the Dodgers returned to the dugout after the top of the first inning, the boos began from the crowd of 38,549.

Two throwing errors on one play, by Hershiser and Snyder, allowed the Rockies to score their first run and put Roberto Mejia on third base. Then, with one out, Dante Bichette grounded back to Hershiser, who faked to first base and threw to Tim Wallach to get Mejia in a rundown. Had Piazza not made a diving tackle on Mejia as he scrambled back toward third base, the Dodgers would have bungled that play, too.

Piazza had barely dusted himself off when Offerman’s throwing error put Rockies on first and third. They scored easily when Jerald Clark followed with a hard-hit double to left-center.

“It’s been an awfully bad week, I guess,” Hershiser said. “We have struggled in almost every category and when you do that, you go into a tailspin, and that’s what happened. It’s a very unfortunate time for us to be playing poorly because we’re at home and had just come off a pretty good series in Houston and played well there, and thought we could get things going.

“When you play an expansion club like the Rockies, you would expect to win three out of four and turn the sweep around on them, but we didn’t perform and they performed well.”

The last expansion team to sweep a four-game series on the road in its first year was the Houston Colt 45s in 1962. But they swept the New York Mets, who were also in their first year.

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