Put this one in a time cap­sule and label it: “2020, the sea­son of missed oppor­tu­ni­ties and heartbreak.”

The Rock­ies lost 5–2 to the Los Ange­les Angels Sat­ur­day night at Coors Field when Jared Walsh blast­ed a three-run homer off Tyler Kinley’s hang­ing break­ing ball in the 11th inning. It was Walsh’s fourth con­sec­u­tive game with a home run.

But this loss can’t be pinned on Kin­ley, who cer­tain­ly pitched well enough in the 10th inning to set the Rock­ies up for a vic­to­ry. And starter Kyle Free­land cer­tain­ly pitched well enough for Col­orado to win.

Nope, the chief rea­son the Rock­ies lost was that they blew a prime oppor­tu­ni­ty to win the game in the 10th under the new “Cal­i­for­nia tie-break­er” sys­tem. Lath­er, rinse, repeat.

Raimel Tapia exe­cut­ed a per­fect sac­ri­fice bunt to move Elias Diaz to third, but Ty But­trey struck out Trevor Sto­ry look­ing at a fast­ball, and after inten­tion­al­ly walk­ing Char­lie Black­mon, But­trey got Nolan Are­na­do to ground out weak­ly to short.

“We had an oppor­tu­ni­ty in the 10th,” man­ag­er Bud Black said. “But­trey threw a pitch to Trevor, a low fast­ball, and ‘Trev’ didn’t pull the trig­ger. But that’s baseball.”

The Rock­ies, who fell back to three games under .500 at 21–24, have repeat­ed­ly had to field postgame ques­tions about missed oppor­tu­ni­ties this sea­son. But Sat­ur­day night’s game was a new low. Col­orado was lim­it­ed to six hits — all of them sin­gles. It marked just the sec­ond time in fran­chise his­to­ry that the Rock­ies were held to six or few­er hits, all sin­gles, in an extra-inning game at home. The oth­er time was Sept. 14, 2008 vs. the Dodgers.

“It’s nev­er easy when you lose a ball­game late in the game or in extra-innings, or on some­thing that could eas­i­ly fall your way,” Free­land said. “It (stinks), being com­peti­tors that we are, and play­ing at the high­est lev­el. But you just have to move on.”

The hero of the night should have been the Rock­ies’ much-maligned bullpen that pitched four score­less innings until Kin­ley gave up the sec­ond-deck homer in the 11th.

Free­land once again gave the Rock­ies the kind of start they need­ed, lim­it­ing the Angels to two runs on four hits over six innings. Free­land has a rock-sol­id 3.54 ERA after 10 starts. It was Freeland’s eighth qual­i­ty start, tied for the most in the Nation­al League with the Cubs’ Yu Darvish.

“Kyle pitched well,” Black said. “He had a four-pitch mix and kept the ball down. Not a lot of hard con­tact against him. I thought Kyle did his job.”

Angels right-han­der Jaime Bar­ria matched Free­land, allow­ing two runs on five hits across 5 1/3 innings. In two career starts at Coors Field, he’s allowed just two runs across 10 2/3 innings.

Colorado’s bullpen backed up Free­land with scrap­py work from Yen­cy Almonte, Car­los Estevez and Daniel Bard. Almonte hit Walsh and gave up a dou­ble to Mike Trout in the sev­enth but escaped by get­ting Antho­ny Ren­don to ground out to Sto­ry at short.

Estevez, who’s been a pina­ta late­ly, was sharp, giv­ing up one hit but strik­ing out two in the eighth.

“Hope­ful­ly this gives him a lit­tle momen­tum and con­fi­dence mov­ing for­ward,” Black said.

Bard’s ninth inning was an adven­ture. He got two quick before Jared Walsh sin­gled up the mid­dle and then Bard essen­tial­ly pitched around the dan­ger­ous Mike Trout, walk­ing him on four pitch­es. But Bard got Antho­ny Ren­don to fly out to cen­ter to end the threat.

Col­orado scored first, scratch­ing out a run off of Bar­ria in the third, string­ing togeth­er a walk by Tony Wolters, a sin­gle by Sto­ry and a sac­ri­fice fly to cen­ter by Blackmon.

The Angels respond­ed with a run off Free­land in the fourth. A lead­off walk by Trout, sin­gles by Albert Pujols and Justin Upton and a sac­ri­fice fly by Max Stas­si tied the game 1–1.

Col­orado took a short-lived 2–1 lead in the bot­tom of the frame on an RBI sin­gle by Ryan McMa­hon who worked a nine-pitch at-bat for an oppo­site-field hit to left to score Josh Fuentes.

Los Ange­les tied the game, 2–2, in the sixth on an RBI dou­ble by Pujols off the left-field wall to score  Ren­don from first base. Pujols’ dou­ble was the 669th of his career, bypass­ing Craig Big­gio and mov­ing Pujols into fifth place all-time.

Free­land, who gave up two hits and a walk in the inning, was tee­ter­ing a bit but he struck out Jo Adell on a 3–2 pitch to snuff out the rally.