The Colorado Rockies are one of the least know baseball teams. That is because they are not very good. Also they share a city with the Denver Broncos who have been in the NFL Playoffs for the past few years. The Rockies are a member of the National League West. Other teams in the same league are the Dodgers, Giants, Diamondbacks, and the Padres. This year the Rockies finished the season with a record of 68 wins and 94 losses. That is a win percentage of .420. The Dodgers won the division with a win percentage of .568. You can see what I mean when I say that the Rockies aren't that good. There are two good things that happened to the Rockies. The first one is that in 2007 they won 21 out of their last 22 games and ended up going to the World Series. However they lost to the Boston Red Sox. The second thing is that is good for the Rockies is that the play in Denver. Because of Denver's altitude the air is much thinner. This means that when a player hits a baseball that might bounce of the fence in any other ballpark it would easily be a home run in Denver. The name of the stadium is Coors Field. They used to play at a stadium called Mile High Stadium until 1995. That is when they started playing at Coors Field. The Rockies have never won a World Series. They have never even won a division title either. They can only hope that the future is going to be better than the past.
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AuthorI play baseball a lot and love to learn and talk about baseball especially catching since that is my position. The Atlanta Braves are my favorite team. Archives
March 2016
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