DENVER -- In baseball, the unexpected is expected. The problem is that you can expect the unexpected all you want -- it’s the coping with it that confounds teams.

Ask the Rangers.

When they arrived in Colorado on Thursday ahead of a weekend series against the Rockies -- the team with the worst record in the Majors at the time -- the defending World Series champions had won eight of 11 games. In that span, Texas scored six or more runs five times, including 12 or more three times.

Fast-forward 48 hours, and the Rangers had lost two consecutive games to the Rockies following an 8-3 defeat on a cold and wet Saturday night at Coors Field.

In the two losses, the Rangers’ powerful lineup mustered just five runs combined in the most hitter-friendly ballpark in the big leagues. Quite unexpected.

But it was only the latest unplanned obstacle for a club that has seen an uncanny rash of injuries hit its pitching staff. With Saturday’s news that right-hander Max Scherzer’s timeline for a return to the mound following back surgery took an unexpected twist, as well as recent injuries to Nathan Eovaldi, Dane Dunning, Cody Bradford and Josh Sborz, it’s almost easier to name the pitchers on the injured list rather than the ones who are healthy.

So when manager Bruce Bochy met with reporters following Saturday’s game, the venerable skipper in his 27th year managing in the Major Leagues had fresh on his mind the subject of the unexpected. The loss was fresh, too, but it’s nothing he hasn’t seen before.

“I’ve seen it so many times here,” he said of Coors Field. “It just gets contagious -- you see some hits, a few walks and some balls falling in … this place can be a little haunting at times. I’ve played a lot of games here and it just got away from us there.”

“There” was the seventh inning, when the usually reliable David Robertson was unable to record an out as a steady rain began falling. The first batter he faced in relief of José Leclerc, Ryan McMahon, delivered an RBI single. Robertson then threw a wild pitch over catcher Jonah Heim’s head and to the backstop.

From there, Robertson yielded another RBI single, hit a batter and walked a batter before giving way to Cole Winn. Winn couldn’t stop the bleeding, surrendering a two-run single to Jacob Stallings and a two-run double to Charlie Blackmon.

In the end, Robertson was charged with four runs, and a 3-2 lead had become an 8-3 deficit. As the rain began falling harder, so did the Rangers. The old saying was as apt as it could ever be: When it rains, it pours.

Entering the contest, Robertson had a 0.87 ERA and had allowed only two runs all season. But the unexpected reared its ugly head again.

“I really just lost all control up on the mound,” he said. “I just couldn’t find the strike zone. It was a really bad one. Just a poor effort on my part. I’ve got to be better than that.”

Robertson wasn’t buying the “things happen” consolation, either.

“I can tell you the last time it happened to me,” he said. “It was the 2017 playoffs (while with the Yankees). I gave up four runs and couldn’t get an out. So they don’t just happen.”

But the unexpected does. Another case in point: the aforementioned disappearing offense, at Coors Field no less. Texas managed only three extra-base hits over the first two games of the series -- a double and a solo homer by Corey Seager on Friday, and a solo homer by Leody Taveras on Saturday.

“I stand behind these guys,” Bochy said. “We’ve been nicked up a little bit, but we’re not quite clicking. I think that’s fair to say. But they’ve done some really good things -- we scored a lot of runs to take three out of four in Oakland and we had some great comebacks in Kansas City.

“I’m not gonna dwell on a game or two. I’m just not going to do it. These guys, they’re good, and they’ll come out of this.”

The Rangers are good. The question is: Can they weather the unexpected?