SEATTLE -- The Rockies’ Kris Bryant never wants to be satisfied. He earned a World Series ring, received a National League MVP honor and played in four All-Star Games, believing the whole time that the next honor came because he didn’t spend much time reveling in the last.

But since signing a seven-year, $182 million contract with the Rockies before last season, Bryant has been chasing satisfaction more than blowing past it. Bryant’s first-inning solo shot off the Mariners’ Tommy Milone in the Rockies’ 5-3 loss at T-Mobile Park on Friday night was a modest accomplishment in comparison to his past. But it was his first homer of this season.

It’s momentary joy, and Bryant will do well to take it when it comes.

“Anytime you can change a zero to a one, it’s a good feeling,” Bryant said.

Manager Bud Black said, “There’s more coming, for sure. That was a good swing -- we saw that swing in Spring Training, too. There’s homers in there.”

In a sense, Bryant’s current plight is more in line with how he wants to operate. There’s little reason to even consider being satisfied.

“Sometimes, you’re your own worst enemy, and that’s not necessarily a terrible thing,” Bryant said a few days ago in the Coors Field clubhouse while describing his self-motivation philosophy. “You’re constantly pushing yourself to be better, and wanting to be better, rather than being complacent. It’s kind of a sick game. It’s a sick way to be, but that’s just how baseball players are sometimes.”

Bryant has hit for average -- .321 after his 2-for-4 performance Friday.

But Bryant is an accomplished threat, on an offense that carries few of them. After an injury-riddled 2022 and a start to '23 in which he has been more a tablesetter than a threat, Bryant has six homers in 55 games in a Rockies uniform. The real head-scratcher is he doesn’t have a homer at Coors Field, a place that seems advantageous for a power hitter.

“Honestly, I’d rather hit them on the road, because you don’t get any credit when you hit them at home,” Bryant said Friday, sardonically playing on the sport-wide tradition of discounting Rockies home offensive accomplishments.

He can say he’s not satisfied, only now there’s more agreement from others.

“There’s your media pressure, there’s fan pressure, but the pressure I put on myself is way more,” Bryant said in the reflective moment back in Denver. “It’s always been like that, not just baseball but schoolwork. I always put pressure on myself to do well on tests, get straight A’s. It’s exhausting at times. I wish I could be a little bit different.

“I wouldn’t recommend it to many people. But there are a lot of crazy people in this clubhouse that think the same way.”

The Rockies loaded the bases in the sixth for the bottom of the order. A Yonathan Daza infield single and Ezequiel Tovar’s walk cut the difference to 5-3 with two out. But Mariners reliever Matt Brash, who fanned Mike Moustakas before walking Tovar, struck out Jurickson Profar.

The inning ended with Bryant on deck. Not only that, but had the Rockies managed a baserunner in the ninth, Bryant would have come up as the potential tying run. Instead, he strode from the on-deck circle to the clubhouse as T-Mobile Park rocked in celebration.

“There are things learned from being in close games on the road,” Bryant said after Friday’s game. “The atmosphere here was a pretty good one, too. So it’s important for us to experience it. A lot of young guys here haven’t experienced that, and hopefully we can turn some of those close losses into close wins.”

Whether it’s lack of opportunity like Friday, or occasions when he hasn’t come up with the big hit, Bryant is looking for his 2023 Rockies moment -- one that will have him pushing for the next.