However, in 1991, as part of Major League Baseball's two-team expansion ( they also added the former Florida ( now Miami ) Marlins ), an ownership group representing Denver led by John Antonucci and Michael I. Monus were granted a franchise ; they took the name “ Rockies ” due to Denver's proximity to the Rocky Mountains, which is reflected in their logo.

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

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.

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 ."

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.

By September, the Dodgers were eliminated by the Rockies from playoff contention, and the Diamondbacks were expected to clinch the National League West division title.

In the 2007 World Series, the Rockies faced the Boston Red Sox, and were swept in four games ; the first game was 13 – 1, the second game was 2 – 1, the third game was 10 – 5, and the fourth and final game was 4 – 3.

659 total pitches were thrown in the game by 15 different pitchers ( eight Rockies pitchers and seven Padres pitchers ).

On July 6, the Rockies were losing 9 – 3 in the 9th inning against the visiting St. Louis Cardinals, when the Rockies stormed back for 9 runs in the inning.

These claims, however, were unsubstantiated and neither the Rockies nor Paciolan have sought investigation into the matter.

According to Agassiz the provinces that the different races were created in included Western American Temperate ( the indigenous peoples west of the Rockies ); Eastern American Temperate ( east of the Rockies ); Tropical Asiatic ( south of the Himalayas ); Temperate Asiatic ( east of the Urals and north of the Himalayas ); South American Temperate ( South America ); New Holland ( Australia ); Arctic ( Alaska and Arctic Canada ); Cape of Good Hope ( South Africa ); and American Tropical ( Central America and the West Indies ).

After the franchise lost its 10, 000th game in 2007, its core of young players, including infielders Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, and Jimmy Rollins and pitcher Cole Hamels, responded by winning the National League East division title, but they were swept by the Colorado Rockies in the Division Series.

The principal advantages of Council Bluffs / Omaha were that it was well north of the Civil War fighting taking place in Missouri, was the shortest route to South Pass break in the Rockies in Wyoming, and would follow a fertile river that would encourage settlement.

Great Britain also colonized the west coast of North America, indirectly via the Hudson's Bay Company licenses west of the Rocky Mountains, the Columbia and New Caledonia fur districts, most of which were jointly claimed as the Oregon Country by the United States from 1818 until the 49th parallel was established as the international boundary west of the Rockies by the Oregon Treaty of 1846.

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.

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

Thrust faults were unrecognised until the work of Escher, Heim and Bertrand in the Alps working on the Glarus Thrust ; Lapworth, Peach and Horne working on parts of the Moine Thrust Scotland ; Törnebohm in the Scandinavian Caledonides and McConnell in the Canadian Rockies.

Included were a replica of the Canadian Rockies, a miniature railroad, mountain slide, Robinson Crusoe ’ s, Beach, a pirate ’ s lair, boat rides and Noah ’ s Ark complete with animals.

After the war, Suzuki's family, like other Japanese Canadian families, were forced to move east of the Rockies.

Tonelli also scored the winning goal in a February 20, 1982 game against the Colorado Rockies, beating former teammate Chico Resch with just 47 seconds to play to allow the Islanders to set an NHL record ( since broken ) with their fifteenth consecutive victory.

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.

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.

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

On August 24, the Rockies faced the San Francisco Giants in what ended up being a 14 inning game which lasted close to 5 hours ( 4: 57 ), the second longest game in Rockies history.

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.

The White-tailed deer have recently expanded their range within the foothills and river valley bottoms of the Canadian Rockies owing to conversion of land to cropland and the clearing of coniferous forests allowing more deciduous vegetation to grow up the mountain slopes.

They picked up momentum and looked like a possible playoff contender, but things collapsed in February, and the Rockies finished the 1976 – 77 season with a record of 20 – 46 – 14 ; good for 54 points.

The Winnebagos and Menominees used both hunting methods interchangeably and built up widespread trade networks extending as far west as the Rockies, north to the Great Lakes, south to the Gulf of Mexico, and east to the Atlantic Ocean.

At one point, a hike from the river up a narrow, boxed canyon leads to a waterfall, Hemmed-In-Hollow Falls, the highest of its kind between the Southern Appalachians and the Rockies.

Five national parks are located within the Canadian Rockies, four of which interlock and make up the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage site.

He picked up his first career save on April 7 against the Colorado Rockies and soon became the National League's leading reliever.

After putting up only average numbers with Milwaukee, he was traded to the new expansion team, the Colorado Rockies.

The Lewis and Clark Expedition did not learn of it from any Native Americans in the area, and followed a northerly route up the Missouri River, crossing the Rockies over difficult passes in the Bitteroot Range in Montana.

The DN & P started north up the Front Range of the Rockies towards Boulder.

From this early and rather cumbersome design came modifications that placed the garment entirely on the rider, and then style variations adapted as vaqueros and later, cowboys moved up from Mexico into the Pacific coast and northern Rockies of what today is the United States and Canada.

KOA sometimes can be picked up in California, which is west of the Rocky Mountains, an obstacle that prevents most east coast radio stations from traveling west of the Rockies.

" In October 1953, I was up in the Canadian Rockies, supervising the drilling of an oil well.

Beginning about 70 million years ago, the Rockies began uplifting along thrust faults that broke up the Precambrian granite of Earth's crust.

Largely thanks to the efforts of Irving Morrell, U. S. forces push up to Banff in the Canadian Rockies and cut off the second of three mountain passes that connect the Pacific coast to the rest of Canada.

In late June 2008, Melhuse signed a minor league contract with the Colorado Rockies and was called up on August 14, 2008.

On August 30, 2008, Melhuse was called up to the Rockies from the Triple-A Sky Sox to replace Yorvit Torrealba who was placed on the DL.

He had two effective starts when he first got called up, but injured his shoulder again during his third start against the Colorado Rockies.

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.