Denver ? The starting pitchers are getting shelled, the brilliant bullpen is a bust. The timely hits are gone, manager Clint Hurdle’s moves are coming up short.

And now Colorado’s collapse is almost complete.

After a month in which most everything went right for the charmed Rockies, most everything has gone wrong in the World Series.

The humidor? No help in Saturday night’s 10-5 loss in Game 3 to Boston, giving the Red Sox a 3-0 lead.

OK, so the slick fielding is still there, but it hardly mattered when the Red Sox were doubling down the lines and into the gaps all night.

Even with slumping leadoff hitter Willy Taveras on the bench, the key hits that carried the Rockies to playoff sweeps over Philadelphia and Arizona didn’t come too often at cavernous Coors Field.

And once again their starting pitcher, this time Josh Fogg, couldn’t find the strike zone or Yorvit Torrealba’s catcher’s mitt enough to keep Boston’s bats from bashing balls all over the place.

One reason the Rockies have gone from winning an unfathomable 21 of 22 to their tough position might well be the eight-day wait they had between the NL playoffs and the start of the World Series.

They simply haven’t rediscovered the ingredients that got them here.

Pitching on nearly two weeks’ rest, Fogg couldn’t get out of the third inning, when he allowed six runs on seven hits, none more painful than the two-out, two-run single that pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka punched through the left side.

Who needs the DH?

Not these Sox, who are doing all the things the Rox did to get here in the first place.

This is what it has come to for the rattled Rockies: their fading hopes now rest on the right arm of Game 4 starter Aaron Cook, who hasn’t pitched in a major league game in 79 days.

He’ll face lefty Jon Lester, who will try to wrap up Boston’s second Series sweep in four seasons.

It won’t matter who’s on the mound for Colorado if the Rockies’ lumber continues is slumber.

A team that led the NL with a .280 batting average has struggled to hit even .230 in the postseason.

Moving Kaz Matsui into the leadoff spot and Troy Tulowitzki back into the second spot didn’t shake them from their doldrums.

Only Matt Holliday came through when it really counted, sending Hideki Okajima’s first pitch 437 feet into the rock pile in center field for a three-run homer that pulled them to 6-5 in the seventh.

Todd Helton followed with a single, but Okajima gathered himself to strike out Garrett Atkins and Brad Hawpe both and get Torrealba on a weak comebacker.

Then, Brian Fuentes, so good down the stretch, gave it all back in the eighth by allowing three runs and sealing the Rockies’ first three-game losing streak since Sept. 13-15 – just before they won 11 straight.

Do they have another remarkable run in them?

They’ve shown nary a hint.