On April 17, 1994, the Rockies beat Montreal 6 – 5, moving the team's record to 6 – 5 — the first time in franchise history that the club had a winning record.

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.

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.

Jim Leyland, a two-time NL Manager of the Year who had won the World Series with the Florida Marlins two years earlier, was expected to bring the Rockies back into contention in 1999.

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 ).

Walker wound up playing in only 87 games in 2000 due to injuries and hit just nine homers, as the Rockies had a completely different look from prior years.

Under previous general manager Gebhard, the Rockies had largely neglected their farm system and mostly relied on signing veteran free agents from other clubs ; this was possible due to the high attendance numbers in the club's first few years of attendance.

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.

The Rockies had two players selected to the All-Star Game: right fielder Brad Hawpe and starting pitcher Jason Marquis.

When they returned to San Francisco for their final series with the Giants on September 14, the Rockies had once again built a large Wild Card lead.

During the game, Atlanta had their 7-game win streak snapped by Florida 5 – 4, meaning the Rockies could reduce their magic number to 3 with a win.

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

On June 1, 2006, USA Today reported that Rockies management, including manager Clint Hurdle, had instituted an explicitly Christian code of conduct for the team's players, banning men's magazines ( such as Maxim and Playboy ) and sexually explicit music from the team's clubhouse.

The pass had been discovered by John Frank Stevens, principal engineer of the Great Northern Railway, in December 1889, and offered an easier route across the Rockies than that taken by the Northern Pacific.

Coincidentally, the Devils had preceded the Avalanche in Denver ; they were called the Colorado Rockies.

On August 6, Gwynn had his 2, 000th hit with a single off Colorado Rockies lefthander Bruce Ruffin.

Because the CP route through the Rockies had been upgraded to modern steel bridges, the CBC miniseries The National Dream filmed its opening and a number of scenes where wooden trestles were wanted on the Myra Canyon section of the Kettle Valley Railway.

The two main mountain ranges that had to be crossed ( the Rockies and the Cascades ) required major civil engineering works and additional locomotive power.

On May 14, Burrell had four RBI ( including the game-winner ) in a 6 – 4 victory over the Colorado Rockies.

Burrell hit a home run against Jeff Francis in the first game of the NL Division Series ( NLDS ) but had only one other hit in the series as the Phillies were swept by the Colorado Rockies.

The territory was organized out of lands in the Rockies on both sides of the continental divide and incorporating the area of the Pikes Peak gold rush that had begun two years previously.

At the colonial office he had great influence in furthering the cause of natural science, particularly in connection with equipment of the Palliser Expedition in Canada ( for his efforts, the Ball Range in the Canadian Rockies was named after him ), and with William Jackson Hooker's efforts to obtain a systematic knowledge of the colonial floras.

By 1997, the Rockies under Baylor's leadership had the best five-year record ( 363-384 ) of any expansion club in MLB history.

The Virginia opossum is found throughout Central America and North America east of the Rockies from Costa Rica to southern Ontario ; it seems to be still expanding its range northward and has been found farther north than Toronto.

It is considered one of the best brown trout fisheries east of the Rockies and has been designated a blue ribbon trout stream by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

For years, it has been the smallest populated town in Alabama, but the town is notable for the nearby rock arch, also named Natural Bridge, the longest natural bridge east of the Rockies, spanning over 127 ft ( 40 m ).

Called the Poet of the Sierras and the Byron of the Rockies, he may have been more of a celebrity in England than in his native U. S. Much of his reputation, however, came not from his poetry but from the image he created for himself by capitalizing on the stereotypical image of Western frontiersmen.

Small, isolated populations also occur east of the Pacific Coast such as in the inland coniferous rainforests of British Columbia's Columbia Mountains ( interior wet-belt ), just west of the Canadian Rockies, and have been seen at lower elevations near creeks and damp areas of Mount Revelstoke National Park.

Elk Island elk have been relocated to various parts North America, including Ontario and the foothills of the Rockies.

Through the 2011 season, the Sky Sox have been the only Triple-A affiliate of the Rockies.

The Cossatot is known as a difficult ( class II-IV +) whitewater stream to canoeists and kayakers and a section at Cossatot Falls in Howard County, Arkansas has been called " the most challenging section of whitewater between the Smokies and the Rockies ," though there are many more challenging runs in the state of Arkansas, such as Richland Creek, Crooked Creek or the Upper Buffalo ( Hailstone run ).

The Canadian Rockies are more jagged than the American Rockies, because the Canadian Rockies have been very heavily glaciated, resulting in sharply pointed mountains separated by wide, U-shaped valleys gauged by glaciers, where as the American Rockies are more rounded, with river-carved V-shaped valleys between them.

In addition, it has been used for the DCI ( Drum Corps International ) Championships in 2004 and the annual Drums Along the Rockies competition.

The conversion of land adjacent to the northern Rockies into agriculture use and partial clear-cutting of coniferous trees ( resulting in widespread deciduous vegetation ) has been favorable to the white-tailed deer and has pushed its distribution to as far north as Prince George, British Columbia.

It is the second largest natural freshwater lake in Utah and has been called the " Caribbean of the Rockies " for its unique turquoise-blue color, the result of suspended limestone deposits in the water.

He has since been part of the Boston Red Sox, Colorado Rockies, Cincinnati Reds, and Kansas City Royals organizations.

However, other opinions suggest that they instead moved to the British Columbia region in the early half of the 18th century, having been harassed and then pushed there from East of the Rockies by the Blackfoot, since their traditional dress, many of their customs ( such as their use of teepee style housing ) and their religion have more in common with Plains peoples.

) The Rockies hoped Hampton, who had been one of the best pitchers in the league over the past few seasons, would be able to succeed in the tough pitching conditions of Coors Field.

Kimberley is served by the Canadian Rockies International Airport that has been expanded, and is expected by many to have a positive impact on commerce and tourism in the Kimberley area.

McKevitt, previously the Denver district attorney, had been the first Republican to represent the district, regarded as the most Democratic in the Rockies, since Dean M. Gillespie in 1947.