The Rockies’ offensive struggles finally caught up to Hensley Meulens — and brought Clint Hurdle back into the fold.

Meulens was relieved of his duties as hitting coach, the team announced Thursday, with the team last in the National League in runs scored (52), home runs (12) and strikeouts (195) and with an MLB-worst 3-15 record. He will be replaced by former Rockies manager Clint Hurdle for the remainder of the season.

“This has been an incredibly frustrating and disappointing start to the season, especially offensively,” general manager Bill Schmidt said in a news release. “While all of us share responsibility, I felt a change was necessary, and that a new voice was needed to give us the best chance to perform as we move forward in the season.

Clint’s 30-plus years of baseball experience, especially over the past three-plus seasons working with our young players throughout the Minor Leagues, put him and our club in a place to be successful moving forward.

“I want to thank Hensley for his efforts over his two-plus seasons with the Rockies. He is a lifetime baseball-man who still has plenty to give the game of baseball.”

Hurdle rejoins the coaching ranks after coming back to the club as a special assistant prior to the 2022 season. The Rockies’ manager from 2002-09, his 534 wins are second in franchise history behind current skipper Bud Black, and Hurdle was at the helm for Colorado’s Rocktober run to the World Series in 2007.

Before becoming Rockies manager, Hurdle was the club’s hitting coach for five-plus seasons and also served as Colorado’s minor league hitting instructor from 1994-96.

After Hurdle was fired as manager 46 games into the 2009 season, he managed the Pirates for nine years from 2011-19.

Meulens’ ouster caps a historically bad Rockies tenure for the man known throughout the game as Bam Bam. Meulens joined the Rockies in 2023 after serving as the Yankees’ assistant hitting coach in ’22.

The Curaçao native, who helped the Giants to three World Series rings as San Francisco’s hitting coach from 2010-17 and bench coach in 2018-19, oversaw some of the worst offensive performances in club history.

In ’23, the Rockies hit just .249, then topped that futility last season with a .242 average that was the worst in club history. The ’24 team’s .704 OPS was also a franchise-worst, as was its .304 on-base percentage and 1,617 strikeouts.

The team’s sputtering offense and high strikeout rate continued into this season.

Colorado ranks 24th in on-base percentage (.285) and slugging (.344). The team’s rookie hitters have struggled to settle in.

And first baseman Michael Toglia, who had a promising close to 2024, has sputtered out of the gate with a .172 average and MLB-leading 32 strikeouts.