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

On August 24 the Brewers completed a sweep of the Colorado Rockies to climb to less than five games out in both the NL Central Division and NL Wild Card races, but then Milwaukee went on a 10-game losing streak that ended any postseason hope.

While the railway to British Columbia was not completed, this did not stop the Governor General from travelling throughout the Rockies on horseback and by boat.

The Royals ' home territory included a large swath of the Great Plains and Rockies, and Kauffman didn't want fans who drove many hundreds of miles to go home without seeing the game completed.

* The Icefields Parkway in the Canadian Rockies is completed.

Approximately 9 km north is the Canadian Rockies International Airport, which has recently completed its 12. 5 million dollar expansion including the lengthening of its runway from 6000 to 8000 feet in order to accommodate a limited number of international flights and an expansion to the Terminal for more passengers.

Rollins completed his season by winning the National League Most Valuable Player award, beating out Matt Holliday of the Colorado Rockies and Prince Fielder of the Milwaukee Brewers.

Interestingly, Kile would go on to finish fifth in voting for the Cy Young Award the following year, as he had in 1997 ( the year before he joined the Rockies ).

On September 22, 2001 Schneider hit his first career home run, coming off Scott Elarton in the fifth inning of a 3-1 Expos victory over the Colorado Rockies.

Atkins was drafted in out of UCLA by the Colorado Rockies in the fifth round ( 137th overall ).

On September 28, 2011, Cain hit his fifth career home run against the Colorado Rockies.

The Diamondbacks eventually clinched the NL West division title, but the Rockies shot up with one of the greatest comebacks in baseball history.

On April 4, 1999, the Rockies made history as they played their Opening Day game against the defending National League champion San Diego Padres at Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico – marking the first time Major League Baseball opened the regular season outside the United States or Canada.

Other than Helton and Wilson, virtually all of the team's regular players were under the age of 30 ; the Rockies dubbed this group " Generation-R ."

As a result of the Rockies ' remarkable September run, the team finished the regular season tied with the Padres for the National League wild card spot in the playoffs.

That pushed the Rockies ' combined late-season ( September 16 and after ) and post-season run to 20 wins and just 1 loss, the single loss coming against Arizona on September 28, 2007 – the 160th game of the regular season.

The Padres ended the regular season in an 89 – 73 tie for the NL wild card with the Colorado Rockies.

On January 22, 2003, he signed with the Colorado Rockies as a free agent, but he was released in March 2003 before the regular season started.

Matsui and the Rockies clinched the 2007 National League wild card game by winning a one-game regular season playoff matchup against the San Diego Padres, propelling Colorado into their second playoff appearance in club history.

A baseball purist ( or " traditionalist ") heartily dislikes the changes that have taken place in Major League Baseball over the years, which include regular season interleague play ( prior to 1997, the teams in the American League never played the teams in the National League during the regular season ), the addition of a wild card team in the post-season playoffs, the four new expansion teams ( the Rockies, Marlins, Diamondbacks, and Rays ) added in the 1990s, and the reconfiguration of the leagues into three divisions.

Mayne, the Rockies ' regular catcher, was unable to swing a bat due to a sprained left wrist and had missed the previous four games.

Although lower in elevation than many of the high mountain passes farther to the south in the Colorado Rockies, the pass often receives a great deal of snow in winter and is subject to regular short closures during heavy winter storms.

William Robert Baker ( born November 29, 1956 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota ) is a retired American professional ice hockey defenseman who played 143 regular season games in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens, Colorado Rockies, St. Louis Blues and New York Rangers between 1980 and 1983.

The Rockies intended to make him their regular closer for the season, but Tsao was sidelined by a pair of right shoulder injuries that eventually required season-ending surgery.

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

Rockies first baseman Andrés Galarraga won the batting title, hitting. 370 for the season after Manager Don Baylor persuaded Galarraga to change from a standard batting stance into an open one in which he squarely faced the pitcher, allowing him to see incoming pitches properly.

Prior to the 1995 season, the Rockies acquired free-agent outfielder Larry Walker, previously of the Montreal Expos, who replaced Kingery as the 4th member of the " Blake Street Bombers "— named after the street on which the new ballpark ( Coors Field ) was located — along with Galarraga, Bichette, and third baseman Vinny Castilla, who had played sparingly with the major-league club during the previous season.

The Rockies once again led the league in attendance for the season.

However, outfielder Ellis Burks picked up the slack with an All-Star season, batting. 344 with 40 homers and 128 RBI — one of three Rockies to hit forty or more homers that season, along with Galarraga and Castilla.

As in 1996, though, the team's pitchers struggled and had a 5. 25 ERA, and the Rockies could not improve upon their finish from the previous season.

The Rockies were broken up after the 1997 season when an aging Galarraga signed with the Atlanta Braves as a free agent.

Neagle went 19 – 23 in three years with the Rockies ; he was injured in 2003 and never pitched in the majors again before the Rockies released him after the 2004 season.

Despite a fourth straight All-Star season by Helton and 36 homers by outfielder Preston Wilson, the Rockies finished just 74 – 88.

In 2004, the Rockies acquired Vinny Castilla, who had been with the club for its inaugural 1993 season, once again, and he hit 35 homers.

However, Wilson and Larry Walker spent much of the season on the disabled list, forcing the Rockies to play Matt Holliday, who had been slated to start the season at Triple-A.

However, perhaps because of the trade of Walker and several consecutive losing seasons, the team fell all the way to fourteenth in the National League in attendance ; for the first time in team history, the Rockies drew under 2 million fans for the season.

The 2006 season started with some promise ; the Rockies were 44 – 43 in the first half of the season and were in contention in the NL West for much of the season.

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.

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

The nine-run deficit that the Rockies overcame made it the largest comeback win in team history.

He attempted a comeback with the Minnesota Fighting Saints of the WHA in 1975 – 76 and then returned to the NHL as a free agent with the Colorado Rockies in later 1976 where he retired from professional hockey after only nine games.

In Game 4 of the 2007 World Series, he entered in the eighth inning to shut down the Rockies ' comeback, and pitched until the ninth inning where he threw the game-winning strikeout for the Red Sox as they clinched the 2007 championship.