The good news for the Rockies, the bullpen didn’t cost them another game. It was already over when they were handed the ball.

A lifeless Rockies team fell 7-0 to the Padres on Monday to open a quick three-game road trip. They are now 2-15 away from Coors Field, and have been outscored 102-52. The Rockies have the fewest road wins in MLB.

Jon Gray, who had been pitching really well this season, had nowhere near his best stuff. He threw 96 pitches, and only 57 for strikes. He was off from the beginning, giving up a triple and a home run before the Rockies even recorded an out. Gray had command issues, especially in that first inning, and his slider, usually his deadliest pitch, was consistently missing the strike zone.

He said he felt physically fine, but he just felt off all night.

“No pitch was working for me,” he said. “There was nothing I could lean on.”

Gray also had two fielding errors, both of which turned into runs. He was pulled in the sixth inning, and likely would have been taken out earlier if the bullpen hadn’t been pitching so poorly. Although they are carrying 10 relievers, four to five of those were likely unavailable because of how much they have been pitching lately.

“Jon was off tonight,” manager Bud Black said. “He couldn’t find his slider, the fastball command left him early. We didn’t help him in the field. He didn’t help himself when he dropped the ball. It wasn’t a clean game for us overall.”

The bullpen took over in the sixth, allowing no earned runs, a refreshing change from how they performed in the last series against the Reds. Lucas Gilbreath took the rest of the sixth from Gray, with Antonio Santos rounding out the seventh and eighth.

The Rockies had just four hits — two of which came from Garrett Hampson. Trevor Story had a single, and Josh Fuentes, the National League player of the week, also had a base hit. They were all left on base, as the Rockies failed to string any hits together. Padres starter Yu Darvish had 10 strikeouts and no walks.

“There are times when the other team’s pitcher shuts you down,” Black said. “Darvish is one of the best pitchers in the National League. He pitched really well tonight.”

Balls move differently at Coors Field, and heading to San Diego directly after a home stand is quite the altitude change. The fastballs are sharper, and the curveballs break more. There is a theory about a Coors Field hangover — where it’s believed to be harder to hit away from Coors — but Black said he does not subscribe to it.

Still, they have tried to make adjustments, including altering pitching machines to try to emulate how the ball will spin during a game, but so far they have not made any noticeable improvements. During the last home stand, the Rockies had no such issues, scoring 40 runs in seven games.

“No other team deals with that except for us,” Fuentes said. “We have our work cut out for us. We are starting to notice.”

Story had two uncharacteristic mistakes on defense, one of which led to a Padres’ run. The one hit was an improvement from the day before, when he struck out four times, but not by much. His timing has been off — he’s behind on the fastball and ahead of the off speed pitches.

The Rockies will play the second game of the series on Tuesday night, with Austin Gomber on the mound.

“Today was just a bad one,” Gray said. “I’ll flush that one and then we’ll forget about it and get back to it tomorrow.”