PHOENIX — The Colorado Rockies had been resilient all season, scraping their way into the postseason after the best start in franchise history fizzled.

The Rockies were able to summon some of that resolve again the NL wild card, but never could fully dig their way out of an early hole in a wild, 11-8 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday night.

The Rockies had an up-and-down regular season and their first playoff appearance since 2009 followed suit.

Colorado fell behind 6-0, roughed up one of baseball’s best pitchers and rallied to pull within one twice. The Diamondbacks had to dig deep down in their bag of scoring tricks to beat the Rockies, needing two homers, 17 hits, an RBI bunt single by a catcher and the first run-scoring triple by a relief pitcher in big league history.

The Diamondbacks’ scoring cornucopia sends them to the NL Division Series against the Dodgers, starting Friday in Los Angeles, and Colorado back to Denver.

The Rockies opened the season 44-26, but had to play some tense games down the stretch after faltering the second half of the season. They made it, finishing 87-75 and a game ahead of Milwaukee for the final NL wild-card spot.

For the playoff game between NL West rivals, Colorado had hot right-hander Jon Gray on the mound with a lineup that included a pair of NL MVP contenders, Nolan Arenado and NL batting champion Charlie Blackmon.