The Rockies had been on an incredible winning pace since the All Star break, and they swept the Diamondbacks in four games.

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.

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.

A replica of two coaches made in England for the Belmont Club in the East, and matchless west of the Rockies, it was the despair of whips on the Santa Cruz run.

Perhaps not surprisingly given the injury to Walker and the trading of two of the team's most popular players, the Rockies finished third in the National League in attendance in 2000, marking the first time in club history that it did not lead the league in attendance.

The two star pitchers were expected by the Rockies to change the team's fortunes.

The game lasted 13 innings, and although the Padres got two runs off of a Scott Hairston home run in the top of the 13th inning to break a 6 – 6 tie, the Rockies came back in the bottom of the 13th by scoring three runs off of closer Trevor Hoffman to win 9 – 8.

Los Angeles, however, would win the next two games, and with their Wild Card lead down to 3, the Rockies traveled to San Francisco for another 3-game set.

After losing each of the first two games by two runs, the Rockies opened up a 5 – 2 lead against Matt Cain in the finale of the series on August 30.

But as in the previous series, San Francisco won the first two games behind Tim Lincecum and Barry Zito, cutting the Rockies Wild Card lead to 2. 5.

The club was founded in Kansas City, Missouri as the Kansas City Scouts in 1974, moved to Denver, Colorado as the Colorado Rockies after only two seasons, and then settled in New Jersey in 1982.

However, the Smythe Division was so weak that year ( only the Black Hawks finished above. 500 ) that the Rockies were able to edge out the Vancouver Canucks for second place in the division by two points.

The two countries agreed to " joint occupancy " of the land west of the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean.

Only two parks presently in existence for a decade or more have only seen one no-hitter — the Orioles ' current home, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, and Coors Field, the notoriously hitter-friendly home of the Colorado Rockies.

Leyland was subsequently hired by the Colorado Rockies for the 1999 season, walking away from the final two years of his contract.

The Canadian Rockies are subdivided into numerous mountain ranges, structured in two main groupings, the Continental Ranges, which has three main subdivisions, the Front Range, Park Ranges and Kootenay Ranges, and the Northern Rockies which comprise two main groupings, the Hart Ranges and the Muskwa Ranges.

Once complete, Matsui was sent down to play with the Rockies ' Triple-A affiliate, the Colorado Springs Sky Sox for about two and a half months.

It came with the Rockies down 3 – 2 with two outs in the top of the 4th inning.

He hit his first two home runs in the same game, on April 28, 1997, against Jamey Wright and Steve Reed of the Colorado Rockies.

The Rockies played their first two seasons, 1993 and 1994, in Mile High Stadium before moving to Coors Field, two blocks from Union Station in Denver's Lower Downtown ( or LoDo ) neighborhood.