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 ).

Colorado Rockies celebrate their second straight victory against the New York Yankees in Coors Field on June 19, 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.

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.

The United States Naval Observatory began the A. 1 scale 13 September 1956, using an Atomichron commercial atomic clock, followed by the NBS-A scale at the National Bureau of Standards, Boulder, Colorado.

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

In 1952 Pei and his team began work on a series of projects in Denver, Colorado.

A solo tour for In Your Dreams began on August 9, 2011 in Denver, Colorado.

He began production on Tribute to a Bad Man in the summer of 1955, but pulled out when the location shooting in Colorado gave him altitude sickness.

In 1932, the D & RGW began construction of the Dotsero Cutoff east of Glenwood Springs to near Bond on the Colorado River, at a location called Orestod ( Dotsero spelled backward ).

The Pike's Peak Gold Rush ( later known as the Colorado Gold Rush ) was the boom in gold prospecting and mining in the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas Territory and southwestern Nebraska Territory of the United States that began in July 1858 and lasted until roughly the creation of the Colorado Territory on February 28, 1861.

The main unit began two days later with the circus train sequence at Alamosa, Colorado.

In the mid-19th century, the bands began to split, with some bands choosing to remain near the Black Hills, while others chose to remain near the Platte Rivers of central Colorado.

Efforts to make a wider peace continued, but in the spring of 1864, John Evans, governor of Colorado Territory, and John Chivington, commander of the Colorado Volunteers, a citizens militia, began a series of attacks on Indians camping or hunting on the plains.

Translated into present landmarks, their lands began in the north at Hoover Dam and ended about one hundred miles below Parker Dam on the Colorado River, or aha kwahwat in Mojave.

Weintraub insisted on a re-issue of the track and began a radio-airplay campaign that started in Denver, Colorado.

West Colfax Avenue began as a trail blazed during the Colorado Gold Rush, being a well-traveled direct route to the gold fields in the mountains.

It began at Santa Fe, thence to Durango, Colorado, crossed the Colorado River where Moab is now located, then to the Green River-crossing where Green River is now located, thence westerly to Cedar Mountain.

In 1996, Major League Soccer's original ten teams ; Columbus Crew, D. C. United, New England Revolution, NY / NJ MetroStars, Tampa Bay Mutiny, Colorado Rapids, Dallas Burn, Kansas City Wiz, Los Angeles Galaxy and San Jose Clash, began play.

In 1959, Gamow, Hans Bethe, and Victor Weisskopf publicly supported the re-entry of Frank Oppenheimer into teaching college physics at the University of Colorado, as the Red Scare began to fade.

The trail began at Young County, Texas and passed along the Pecos River, Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and Colorado before ending in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

However, the town's name and origin began when a post office was established January 6, 1871, on the Colorado River Indian reservation to serve the Indian agency.

After receiving her teacher certification from the University of Colorado in Boulder, she began teaching in Wabbaseka in 1897 and died there in 1944.

In 1949 the US Bureau of Reclamation began a mass project to dredge a new channel for the Colorado River that would straighten out a river bend that was causing massive silt problems since the Hoover Dam was completed.