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Brief History
The Colorado Rockies are a Major League Baseball team based in Denver, Colorado. They play in the West Division of the National League. The Rockies won the National League pennant for the first time in the club’s history during the 2007 season.
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Established in 1991, The Rockies started play in 1993. They played their first home game in front of over 80,000 fans, the largest opening day crowd in baseball history. The Rockies won that game over Montreal 11-4, the club’s first Major League win. They had lost their first two games to the Mets at Shea Stadium, 3-0 on April 5 and 6-1 on April 7, 1993.
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The team is named after the Rocky Mountains, which pass through Colorado west of Denver. The Rockies play their home games in downtown Denver at Coors Field, where the 20th row of the upper deck is exactly one mile above sea level. This has given raise to the expression “mile high style” baseball – according to the Coors Field web site, scientific studies show a baseball hit four-hundred feet in New York (sea level) will travel ten percent further in Denver, or four-hundred forty feet. The result? A “mile high style” baseball where runs and home runs come cheaply, punch-and-judy hitters become sluggers, no lead is safe, and final scores sound like the teams had field goal kickers instead of batters in their lineups. The ‘mile high style” broke new ground in 1999 when a record three-hundred three homes runs were launched at Coors Field that year and the average score was 8-7.
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The Rockies parlayed “mile high style” baseball into four winning seasons. They won as many as eighty-three games (twice), but it was the seventy-seven victory season in the strike-shortened 1995 campaign that earned them the wild card berth under Don Baylor, their only post season appearance to date. They were led by a Dante Bichette career year (forty home runs, one-hundred twenty-eight runs batted in, .340 batting average) and a Larry Walker typical year (thirty-six home runs, one-hundred one runs batted in, .306 batting average).
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“Mile high style” baseball has taken a heavy toll on the Rockies pitching staff – they have been burned and battered every season, giving up an an average of one-hundred ninety-five home runs per season. Only once has the staff ERA been below 5.00 (4.97 in the 1995 wild card year) and it has been as high as 6.03 in 1999. Blame the thin air again – it prevents breaking pitches from having their usual bite, essentially limiting pitchers to throwing batting practice during most games.
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