The Diamondbacks ' first major league game was played against the Colorado Rockies on March 31, 1998, at Bank One Ballpark before a standing-room only crowd of 50, 179.

" On September 28, the Diamondbacks defeated the Colorado Rockies to secure a position in the 2007 playoffs.

In the NLCS, they faced the Colorado Rockies again.

The most sacrifice flies by a team in one game is five ; the record was established by the Seattle Mariners in 1988 and tied by the Colorado Rockies in 2006 and then tied again in 2008 by the Seattle Mariners.

The biggest news of the season came on July 30 when the Indians traded four prospects for Colorado Rockies star pitcher, Ubaldo Jiménez.

Notable former Indians broadcasters include Tom Manning, Jack Graney ( the first ex-baseball player to become a play-by-play announcer ), Jack Corrigan ( now with the Colorado Rockies ), Jimmy Dudley who received the Ford Frick Award in 1997, Ken Coleman, Joe Castiglione, Van Patrick, Joe Tait, Bruce Drennan, Jim " Mudcat " Grant, Harry Jones, Rocky Colavito and Herb Score, who called Indians ' baseball for 34 seasons.

The Colorado Rockies are a Major League Baseball ( MLB ) franchise based in Denver, Colorado.

The Colorado Rockies have won one National League championship ( 2007 ).

The Rockies went 73 – 89 in both years that Hampton and Neagle were in Colorado, and the amount of money owed them ( the Rockies paid a sizable portion of Hampton's salary even after he was traded to the Atlanta Braves ) crippled the team for the next several years.

While the Rockies struggled to a 68 – 94 record — the second worst record in club history — the club's Triple-A affiliate, the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, went 78 – 65.

Colorado Rockies on June 19, 2007 in Coors Field.

The Rockies trailed the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Arizona Diamondbacks and the San Diego Padres for most of 2007 Major League Baseball season – however – by August, Colorado showed a steady series of wins, while the Division-leading Dodgers began to struggle.

On October 6, 2007, the Rockies completed a three-game sweep of the Phillies by winning 2 – 1 in Colorado.

Baseball America named the Colorado Rockies the " Organization of the Year " for their accomplishments during the 2007 season.

The Colorado Rockies began the 2008 season after few offseason changes from the National League champion squad of 2007.

His successor as manager is Jim Tracy, who was originally hired as bench coach for the Colorado Rockies in November 2008.

In a pivotal swing game that would either see the Rockies leave San Francisco with a 1. 5 game lead or a 3. 5 game lead, Colorado once again built a large lead against Matt Cain in the finale of the series on September 16.

The Rockies have placed Matsui in the Triple-A Colorado Springs Sky Sox minor league team.

The Colorado Rockies have had Hi Corbett Field as their spring training home for many years.

On October 17, 2007, a week before the first game of the 2007 World Series against the Boston Red Sox, the Colorado Rockies announced that tickets would be made available to the general public via online sales only, despite prior arrangements to sell the tickets at local retail outlets.

Five days later on October 22, California-based ticket vendor Paciolan, Inc., the sole contractor authorized by the Colorado Rockies to distribute tickets, was forced to suspend sales after less than an hour due to an overwhelming number of attempts to purchase tickets.

Geologically, the region lies mostly within the Colorado Piedmont, in the valley of the South Platte and Arkansas rivers on the east side of the Rockies.

One such occasion was in Cherry Creek State Park, Denver, Colorado, in 1993: to help celebrate the sixth World Youth Day, she was invited to sing her song " We Are One Body ", the theme song for the event, live to the Pope.

Frozen Dead Guy Days ( started 2002 ) is an annual celebration held in the town of Nederland, Colorado, to loosely celebrate, through a theme of frozen / ice / blue / winter, the 1994 discovery of the cryonic state corpse of Bredo Morstel.

Each spring semester, the Colorado School of Mines students and faculty celebrate E-days ( or Engineering Days ).

* Colorado-working with the founders of Boulder ’ s Open Space to re-awaken the Nature movement and celebrate the legacy of protected land that is entrusted to Boulder citizens, and developing wildlife interstate crossings in Colorado

Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Shoup have returned to their home in Colorado Springs after spending a few days at the Brown Palace Hotel.

He participated in their trek across the southwestern deserts to Texas, crossing the Colorado River into the Confederate Territory of Arizona on July 4, 1861.

Colorado won the first two games of the NLCS against the Diamondbacks in Phoenix, then won their third game against the Diamondbacks in Denver on Sunday, October 14.

Colorado began the season on a high note, winning their opener on April 1, in a 2 – 1 comeback victory over the Cardinals.

Colorado responded by winning 10 of their first 11 games in September, including a 9 – 1 home stand.

The awards are sometimes veiled criticism ( or gentle satire ), as in the two awards given for homeopathy research, prizes in " science education " to the Kansas and Colorado state boards of education for their stance regarding the teaching of evolution, and the prize awarded to Social Text after the Sokal Affair.

The Kansas City Wiz played their first game on April 13, 1996, defeating the Colorado Rapids at Arrowhead Stadium.

During their marriage, several of Grammer and Donatacci's homes were featured in magazines, including ones in: Malibu, California ( February 2001, InStyle ), Maui ( May 2004, InStyle ), Long Island, New York ( April 2008, InStyle ), Bachelor Gulch, Colorado ( Architectural Digest ), and Bel Air, Los Angeles ( Architectural Digest ).

Liberal radicales ( radicals ) who opposed compromising with their Colorado enemies boycotted the new arrangement.

Moríñigo's intentions about stepping down were murky, however, and his de facto alliance with Colorado Party hardliners and their thuggish Guión Rojo ( red script ) paramilitary group antagonized the opposition.

The Colorado Party's peasant py nandí irregulars (" barefoot ones " in Guaraní ), who had a well-deserved reputation for ferocity, often tortured and executed their prisoners.

The exhaustion of most opposition forces enabled Stroessner to crush the Paraguayan Communist Party ( Partido Communista Paraguayo-PCP ) by mercilessly persecuting its members and their spouses and to isolate the exiled Colorado epifanistas ( followers of Epifanio Méndez Fleitas ) and democráticos, who had reorganized themselves as the Popular Colorado Movement ( Movimiento Popular Colorado-Mopoco ).

The team continued this run of success with wins over the Colorado Rockies in the NLDS ( 3 games to 1 ) and the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS ( 4 games to 1 ), to become the first Phillies team to win back-to-back pennants and the first National League team since the 1996 Atlanta Braves to have an opportunity to defend their World Series title.

The unique circular California house, which, like their Colorado house, he designed with Virginia, and built himself, is on Bonny Doon Road.

The Padres opened their 1999 season in Monterrey, Mexico versus the Colorado Rockies.

The Colorado and National Parties continued their legislative coalition, as neither party by itself won as many seats as the 40 % of each house won by the Broad Front coalition.

Although Perot easily won the nomination, his victory at the party's national convention led to a schism, as supporters of his opponent, former Governor Richard Lamm of Colorado, accused him of rigging the vote to prevent them from casting their ballots.

After obtaining her PhD, Singer worked at the University of Colorado ’ s School of Medicine, in their department of psychiatry for eight years.

This uplift has steepened the stream gradient of the Colorado River and its tributaries, which in turn has increased their speed and thus their ability to cut through rock ( see the elevation summary of the Colorado River for present conditions ).