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The Rockies released him at the end of the season to make room at first base for prospect Todd Helton.
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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.
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.
He signed with the Colorado Rockies in March 2009 but was released by the organization a month later.
On August 15, 2009 Timlin was released by the Colorado Rockies.
During the 2006 – 2007 offseason, Cabrera signed a minor league contract with the St. Louis Cardinals that included an invitation to spring training ; after spending most of the year with their Triple-A affiliate, the Memphis Redbirds, Cabrera was released and signed a minor league contract with Colorado Rockies.
However, the Rockies released him before the start of the season.
Guillén was signed by the Colorado Rockies on July 29,, but was released just three days later on August 1, before playing in any games.
Graves signed a minor league deal with the Rockies on December 19, 2006 but was released during Spring Training in March 2007 prior to the season.
On June 23, the Rockies released Mohr.
In, he posted an ERA of 9. 80 before the Rockies released him in mid-May.
After being released by the Rockies in 2004, he was signed to a Minor-League contract by Cleveland and was soon back in the Majors.
He was released by the Rockies on June 17.
On May 5,, Capellan was released by the Rockies after being designated for assignment.
On June 1, the Rockies released Moyer, making him a free agent and eligible to sign with any team.
Moyer signed a minor league deal with the Baltimore Orioles on June 6, five days after being released by the Rockies.
The Rockies released Wedge at the end of spring training in 1994 and he was re-signed by the Red Sox on May 2.
On June 23,, the Rockies released Koronka so he could sign with a Japanese team, the Orix Buffaloes.
On December 4, 2009, Murton was released by the Rockies, who sold his contract to the Hanshin Tigers of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.
Van Buren spent four years playing Single-A baseball for the Rockies before being released in and signing with the Fort Worth Cats of the independent Central Baseball League.
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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.
Because he could still be useful to a contending team, the Rockies traded him to the St. Louis Cardinals in August for three minor-leaguers.
During the game against the Colorado Rockies, Mets manager Willie Randolph replaced Piazza after the eighth inning, at which point the Shea Stadium crowd of 47, 718 serenaded him with a standing ovation, at which point Piazza humbly bowed to the stands and blew kisses to the adoring fans.
* Alexander MacKenzie ( 1764 – 1820 ) – Scottish-Canadian explorer who in 1789, looking for the Northwest Passage, followed the river now named after him to the Arctic Ocean and then in 1793 crossed the Rockies and reached the Pacific in 1793, thus beating Lewis and Clark by 12 years.
Beckett's 2 – 0 record and 1. 93 ERA against the Cleveland Indians in the ALCS earned him the 2007 ALCS MVP Award, and he started and won the first game of the 2007 World Series against the Colorado Rockies, pitching 7 innings, allowing 1 run on 6 hits, and striking out 9 batters.
The Fairmont Palliser Hotel and the neighbourhood of Palliser in Calgary, Alberta, are named after him, as are the Palliser Range and Palliser Formation of the Canadian Rockies
The Rockies immediately flipped him to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for Joe Kennedy.
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.
When Baylor became the first Rockies manager in the off-season, he recommended that Colorado take a chance on Galarraga and sign him as a free agent.
Without him however, the Rockies went 3 – 10 the rest of the way.
On January 21, 2002, Agbayani was part of a 10-player, three-team trade between the Mets, Rockies and Milwaukee Brewers, that sent him from New York to Colorado.
On August 14, the Rockies signed him to a minor league contract and he was recalled from the Colorado Springs Sky Sox on September 1, 2006.
* Relocating the action to the Canadian Rockies, Jack and Aunt Meg are happily shooting defenseless animals in the forest and mounting their heads on the wall when Mountie Brown warns the two of a giant bear walking the woods that appears to be impervious to gunfire which caused him to foul himself, he was so scared.
Mount Robertson in the Canadian Rockies and Sir William Robertson High School in his birth village, Welbourn, were named after him.
The Colorado Rockies selected him in the seventh round of the June 1993 amateur draft and he made his major league debut for the Rockies on May 11, 1997.
After six appearances ( five starts ), he was 0-5 with an 11. 84 ERA and the Rockies sent him down to triple-A Colorado Springs where he didn't fare much better ( 0-2, 9. 45 ERA in five starts ).
With limited duty in 2001 due to a torn hamstring early in the season, the Mets finally gave up on him and he was traded to the Rockies during the 2002 season.
On December 8, 2005, the Rockies traded him and Aaron Miles to the St. Louis Cardinals for pitcher Ray King.
There he continued to struggle, and on August 1 the Royals traded him with Jeremy Affeldt to the Colorado Rockies for Ryan Shealy and Scott Dohmann.
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The Rockies have many `` Aspencades '', which are organized tours of the aspen areas with frequent stops at vantage points for viewing the golden panoramas.
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.
The first game in Rockies history was played on April 5, 1993, against the New York Mets at Shea Stadium.
Despite the club's poor record, several Rockies hitters gained notoriety for their exploits at the plate, assisted by the thin and dry air of Denver, which purportedly allows balls to carry farther than they would at sea-level ballparks.
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.
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 season was scheduled to begin on March 31 against the St. Louis Cardinals at St. Louis, however, the game was rescheduled to the next day because of foul weather.
Spilborghs hit the first walk-off grand slam in Rockies history, his second career grand slam, and his first walk-off homer in the 14th inning to squeak by the Giants, 6 – 4, Monday in front of about half of the 27, 670 fans who remained at Coors Field.
As the Giants began to fade, the Atlanta Braves started making a run at the Rockies that was starting to look similar to Colorado's 2007 run.
Rockies second baseman Clint Barmes, playing in, made a miraculous over the shoulder diving catch after a long run, and doubled off Albert Pujols, who thought the ball would drop and was nearly at third base, to end the game.
On September 29, their lead down to 2 games and their magic number at 5, the Rockies opened their final home series against Milwaukee.
The Braves would lose again the following night, and the Rockies 10 – 6 win set their magic number at 1.
Rockies ended the season with a total record of 83 – 79 ( finishing 3rd overall ) by losing 13 of its last 14 games after getting close to 2 – 3 wins from the NL West leader at one point at almost the end of the season.
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.
* Frank, Alberta, small community in the Crowsnest Pass at the southern end of the Canadian Rockies
On April 17, 2008, during the series against the Colorado Rockies at PETCO Park, the Padres played the longest game in team history, in terms of innings ( 22 ), losing 2 – 1.
Fans are generally encouraged to sing along, and at some ballparks, the words " home team " are replaced with the team name, as is the case with the Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies, Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners, Colorado Rockies, and several other Major League Baseball teams.
** Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors ( the so-called Four Georgians ) discover gold at Last Chance Gulch ; it is their last and agreed final attempt at weeks of trying to find gold in the northern Rockies.
The Minturn Formation, a limestone formation exemplified at Marble Mountain on the crest of the Sangre de Cristos, is evidence of a sea in the Central Colorado Trough during the era of the Ancestral Rockies.
This classification found additional support in 2010 from John Scannella and Jack Horner at the Museum of the Rockies ( Bozeman, Montana ).
The dry line is the boundary between dry and moist air masses east of mountain ranges with similar orientation to the Rockies, depicted at the leading edge of the dew point, or moisture, gradient.
Elevations and climate range from desert at Boysen State Park to glaciers at Gannett Peak, the highest point not only in Wyoming but in the three Central Rockies states of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.
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