LOS ANGELES -- While the Rockies’ losing streak at Dodger Stadium came to an end over the weekend, frustration persists.

With two chances to clinch a third consecutive series victory, the Rockies fell just short against the Dodgers, absorbing a 4-0 defeat on Sunday afternoon following a 4-1 setback on Saturday.

The disappointment in the clubhouse was palpable Sunday, a testament to just how good the final three weeks of May were for manager Bud Black’s club.

“We had some opportunities to draw [Saturday] night’s game closer if we get a two-out hit, and we just didn’t do it,” Black said. “Today, we mustered just the five hits and had one real opportunity, and we couldn’t get the base hit.”

The Rockies had Cal Quantrill on the mound Saturday and Austin Gomber pitching on Sunday, yet the second victory in the series never came. The duo was among the best in baseball last month.

The Rockies’ victory Friday was authored by Dakota Hudson, who ended the club’s seven-game losing skid in L.A. dating back to 2022. That victory also gave the Rockies 13 wins in their last 20 games in an uptick led by the starting staff.

Quantrill was good, just not great on Saturday. Gomber never found his stride on Sunday while taking the mound after a 10-day rest.

Gomber was scratched from his start last Monday. Black said his left-hander’s health was improved enough to reinsert him back into his normal rotation spot.

From the outset against the Dodgers, however, Gomber was unable to look like the pitcher who delivered a sparkling 0.68 ERA in four May starts.

“I was just kind of missing locations with a lot of pitches early on, and throughout my whole outing,” Gomber said. “And those guys are pretty good at capitalizing on that. I thought I wasn’t helping myself a lot with commanding the baseball. But physically, I felt fine. They just beat me today.”

Three Gomber pitches into the game, the Dodgers had a 1-0 lead on Mookie Betts’ home run down the left-field line. Two batters later, Freddie Freeman gave the Dodgers a 2-0 lead with a home run to center field that Brenton Doyle nearly snagged over the wall. The ball deflected off the thumb of Doyle’s glove just as it cleared the wall.

As much as the early runs allowed were a detriment, so was the Dodgers’ ability to spoil pitches on the edge of the strike zone. The Dodgers fouled off 18 of Gomber’s 79 pitches, including eight of his 33 fastballs and six of his 17 sliders. They swung and missed just six times.

“They don’t expand a lot, and that’s their strength,” Black said of the Dodgers. “It’s tough to hit and you’re not going to square every ball up that you swing at, but they do a good job of swinging at pitches that they might not put the barrel on and foul it off.”

Gomber gave up another run in the third inning on Miguel Rojas’ single. He never made it to the fourth inning.

“Obviously, not as good of a rhythm as I was in with the longer layoff, but I felt good,” Gomber said. “I felt like I had the ability to make good pitches and I didn’t make them today. For whatever reason -- it may be the layoff, the lineup -- whatever it was, they just beat me today. It’s hard to pinpoint one thing.”

Moral victories are not what the Rockies are chasing, but they were competitive with one of the National League’s best teams again, one week after they got the best of another in the Phillies.

A bullpen that had trouble delivering during a previous May trip to California showed up over the weekend by finishing off Friday’s victory with two scoreless innings, tossing another 3 2/3 scoreless innings on Saturday and giving up one run over five innings on Sunday, when Peter Lambert and Anthony Molina each went more than two innings.

“You know, it’s frustrating not being able to come out and capitalize yesterday or today and win a series here,” Gomber said. “For whatever reason, I wasn’t as good today as I have been. So we’ll turn the page, and I’ll be ready in five days.”