The Rockies remain shameless.

It’s clear they are not budging on their hitting philosophy. If they were not moved to fire hitting instructor Hensley Meulens after last season, when they ranked second in strikeouts and 26th in walks, then they are entrenched.

Nothing, it seems, will make them change. Not even a start so awful that it makes their propane bullpen look functional.

Perhaps Friday’s frigid home-opening loss to the Athletics will cause owner Dick Monfort and general manager Bill Schmidt to think outside the batter’s box. (It won’t.)

Consider what we have learned through the first week of the season. The Rockies can’t hit. They struggle to make contact. And they rarely walk or deliver a productive out.

They are 1-6, losers of five straight, and average 2 runs. They have struck out 82 times, or 11 per game. And they are batting .169 with runners in scoring position in 59 at-bats.

This team couldn’t deliver a hit if they performed a collaboration with Post Malone. Friday, they went 1 for 15 with a chance to hit someone in.

Another RIP with RISP.

And we can’t even blame Kris Bryant. He needed another day to get his swing right after starting the season 1 for 14. His biggest contributions on Friday were using a torpedo bat in batting practice and absorbing the loudest boos during introductions, a few octaves higher than those reserved for manager Bud Black.

Bad teams like the Rockies lack big swings but never excuses.

Guys are trying too hard. The schedule has been a mess, including three home openers, one in a spring training park, another on the East Coast and Friday in conditions more suited for the Iditarod. Opposing pitchers have been nasty. And the factory default: “It’s early.”

The latter would carry weight if the team wasn’t coming off the worst offensive season in franchise history. At least third baseman Ryan McMahon and shortstop Ezequiel Tovar had the good sense to point the finger in the mirror.

“We have to be better. We are getting really good pitching right now. It’s on us. We have to step up,” McMahon said. “I think in every single game we have had an opportunity to take a step ahead.”

Tovar, who is working on being more selective, admitted, “It’s no secret that we have to do better (with runners on base). It’s something where we all recognize that we haven’t done our job up there.”

This isn’t exactly the Nuggets wasting Nikola Jokic’s prime, but the Rockies are spoiling good starting pitching. The rotation boasts a 1.64 ERA, and will get some more juice when top prospect Chase Dollander makes his debut on Sunday.

And it doesn’t matter. Not even in Denver.

Coors Field turns 30 years old this month. There has never been a more offensively tilted park. Late manager Don Baylor used to joke that hitters were in scoring position when they stepped to the plate.

Remember all those home runs from the Blake Street Bombers? Some of those teams were bad. But at least they weren’t boring. The 2025 Rockies are the Blake Street Bummers.

The Rockies have three home runs in 197 at-bats this season. No team has fewer. The Yankees hit three straight homers to lead off their second game of the season.

Is there a team more offensively flawed for its park than the Rockies? Coors Field exists to inflate averages with helium, to turn doubles into home runs, to create chaos on the bases.

The Rockies make up for their lack of power with a lack of speed. They have three stolen bases, all by Jordan Beck.

They finally showed urgency, if not creativity, in the 10th inning. With runners on first and third and one out, Tyler Freeman attempted a safety squeeze. He got a fastball near his head. The surprise element gone, Freeman struck out.

Then came the ultimate Rockies rally moments later. They loaded the bases with a ghost runner and two intentional walks. A’s manager Mark Kotsay wanted Beck to face Noah Murdock. The right-hander gassed him up with a high heater, punctuating one of the Rockies’ 14 strikeouts. Every starter, save for Brenton Doyle, had at least one.

“It’s frustrating,” Black said. “Early in the season, it is magnified.”

And what does it say about Bryant that he wasn’t available to pinch-hit in that situation? It felt like the Rockies were more concerned about sparing him embarrassment rather than rolling the dice that he could silence the jeers with a timely hit. If this isn’t the end of his Rockies career, we can see it from here.

The Rockies are right. It is April. Early slumps are amplified.

But the fans — cap tip those who braved the 30-degree temperatures and swirling snowflakes — have lost patience. The Rockies could create goodwill by admitting they are in a full-blown youth movement. Transparency helps frame expectations.

Instead, they sell the idea that the players are pressing, that the home runs are coming, that Bryant is critical to the offense.

And you wonder why no one trusts the process?