TAMPA, Fla. – We all know Dick Monfort ain’t no baseball Nostradamus. But after all the cringe-worthy, outlandish predictions the Rockies owner has made about his team through the years, maybe he finally got one right.

Back in February, Monfort made a breakfast crowd in Colorado choke on its coffee with a declaration that sounded nonsensical the instant these words left his mouth.

“The infield, quite honestly – if you like defense, (and) I like defense – will be the best defense, maybe in the history of the game,” Monfort said.

Well, this might cause Tinker, Evers and Chance to roll over in their graves, but the golden gloves flashed by the Rockies on Saturday during an improbable 2-1 victory against Tampa Bay was the stuff you see maybe once a century.

Although Rockies pitchers allowed 17 baserunners, only one Rays player ever crossed the plate.

Third baseman Ryan McMahon flashed leather like Brooks Robinson. Ezequiel Tovar did Wizard of Ozzie Smith things at shortstop. And say, hey, have you seen this kid Brenton Doyle go get the ball in center field?

“It’s a cool thing to see, everybody making plays,” Tovar said. “Defense wins games.”

Eleven baseballs off the Rays’ bats were crushed in excess of 95 mph, but all went to die in a Colorado glove somewhere around the diamond. The Rockies ended threats by Tampa Bay in two separate innings by throwing out runners at the plate.

“We’re playing really good defense,” Rockies starting pitcher Antonio Senzatela said. “They got my back today … They made big plays when I needed them.”

OK, before you go accusing me of a hot take about a once-in-a-century display of defense, consider a fun fact dug deep from the annals of baseball lore.

Senzatela was rocked by Tampa Bay hitters. He gave up nine hits, walked two and struck out nobody in a scant 4.1 innings, yet surrendered nary a run to the Rays.

When was the last time a major league pitcher escaped unscathed while allowing so much traffic and whiffing nobody in five innings or less of chaotic work on the mound?

You have to go all the way back to 1922. The mean feat was last pulled off by Spittin’ Bill Doak, who was born in 1891, grew up to win 169 games for the St. Louis Cardinals, then retired to open a candy shop Bradenton, which is 50 miles down the road from where the Rockies mass-produced web gems on a blustery March afternoon at Steinbrenner Field.

All Colorado needed to win the game was a clutch RBI single by Doyle in the third inning and another timely bingo by Kyle Farmer to drive home an insurance run in the seventh inning.

From the 110-mph shot speared by second baseman Farmer to the sliding Cirque du Soleil catch Doyle made in center field, I asked Rockies manager Bud Black if he could pick a favorite moment of 24-karat defensive gold.

“As a pitcher, I like them all,” said Black, who won 121 games on a big-league bump from 1981-95. “These guys all want to make plays.”

The Rockies have somehow split the first two games of this new season despite scoring only four total runs and Kris Bryant, their $182 million man, not hitting a lick.

This team, however, is a hoot to watch, so long as you close your eyes when it pitches or hits.

But the Colorado defense?

It just might prove to be better than Mr. Monfort’s wildest dreams.