Ryan McMahon knocked his sixth homer of the season Thursday night. Only one player in the National League has hit more.

But the evening ended with him holding a bat in the on-deck circle and leading the league in disappointment.

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Not one of McMahon’s six homers has come in a Rockies victory. In the series finale at Dodger Stadium, when his homer helped the Rockies score the most runs they had during their ultimately winless six-game NL West road trip, it looked as if that hard-luck run would end.

But the two-run lead the Rockies took into the seventh inning disappeared when Yency Almonte’s control disappeared with two outs and Rockies-killer Max Muncy made the ball disappear for a three-run homer that led to the Dodgers’ 7-5 victory.

So the Rockies would land in Denver to snow, freezing temperatures and a schedule that has them facing the Mets on Friday night at Coors Field amid a forecast more conducive to skiing than the grand old game. The Rockies, an MLB-worst 3-10, need better performance overall. And it would be nice to reward McMahon.

Before Wednesday’s middle game of the series, when the Rockies harbored hope of scoring a couple of wins after going 0-3 at San Francisco and losing at Los Angeles on Tuesday, McMahon could do nothing but accept the oddity of hitting home runs exclusively in losing efforts. He hit three against the D-backs in one game, but the Rockies lost in extra innings.

“You want to help your team win, right?” McMahon said. “It always feels better hitting homers in games your team wins. But I’m not looking at it like [frustration]. I’m trying to go out there and play good baseball and help the team win.”

If anyone is wondering, the record for most home runs to start a year without one coming in a winning effort is held by Steve Boros, who hit 12 for the 1962 Tigers before going deep in a victory.

The last two games against the defending World Series champs were defined by the chances that the Dodgers snatched from the Rockies.

Wednesday’s loss was a two-run difference, but the offensive struggles of the road trip made a comeback impossible. On Thursday, Justin Turner’s three-run shot in the third was the only real damage in six innings against starter Austin Gomber, and the Rockies’ three-run rally against Dodgers starter Julio Urías in the sixth.

The three-run top of the sixth, which gave the Rockies a 5-3 lead, began with McMahon’s one-out double.

“Mac had a good swing in the first inning, for sure, and what I really liked was the double in the gap later in the game that got our rally going,” Rockies manager Bud Black said. “He’s in a good place.”

The best works of McMahon were all washed away.

Almonte had walked two and seen Chris Taylor beat out a possible double play to keep the inning going. Almonte fell behind 2-0, and catcher Elias Díaz looked to the dugout. No order came to walk Muncy and go right-on-right with Will Smith. But Black noted that Almonte had struck out Luke Raley with a changeup to start the inning and a well-placed pitch could end the threat.

Instead, Muncy reached low and sent the Rockies to disappointment -- again. It was his 16th homer in 49 career games against the Rockies.

As the ninth began, Yonathan Daza and Alan Trejo singled -- it was Los Angeles native Trejo’s first Major League hit -- off David Price. But Price fanned Trevor Story, as a pinch-hitter, and Garrett Hampson, who had homered off Urías in the third, then Price forced a Raimel Tapia grounder.

Price left with his first regular-season career save, and left McMahon without a chance to change the result and possibly put a Rockies "W" in the same box score as his HR.