Thread: The Official Colorado Rockies thread--Now with extra awesome!!

Originally Posted by Snapping Turtle

Oblique Strain.

Are they not on TV tonight?

Originally Posted by Watchthemiddle

Are they not on TV tonight?

Channel 20, or on Comcast, channel 3

Originally Posted by Denver Native (Carol)

Channel 20, or on Comcast, channel 3

NIIIIICE!!!!

I am watching about 5 College Football games right now and now add a Rockies game to the mix.

I didn't even think about channel 20. Good work Native...

I dont have the channel here in Laramie, so I am listening to KOA. It kinda sucks, but its better than nothing!


GO ROCKIES!


Speaking of college football, Wyoming looked TERRIBLE today but we won and thats all that matters!

Joe K got 2 RBI's!

Yay for Joe!

WELL, the Rockies won again today Way to go Rockies

Originally Posted by Denver Native (Carol)

WELL, the Rockies won again today Way to go Rockies

My main man G 'Schmex' Atkins hit an in-park homer!

Hawpe hit ANOTHER HR!

Jeffy Francis pitched really well!



And the Padres had 3 ejected in less than half an inning!

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drm...705559,00.html

SAN DIEGO – These Rockies are looking for better things than being the best in franchise history.

It was an afterthought that they set a franchise record for victories in a season with a 7-3 victory on Sunday afternoon that completed a sweep against the NL wild-card leading San Diego Padres.

``That’s nice,’’ right fielder Brad Hawpe said, ``but it’s not enough.’’

These Rockies have postseason aspirations on their mind.

And with the weekend sweep at Petco Park what seemed impossible turned possible, even if not probable. Not only have they won 84 games – one more than in both 1996 and 1997 – but with six games remaining in the regular season, they are just 1 ½ games behind the Padres and a game back of Philadelphia in the NL wild-card race. THe Rockies also extended their winning streak to eight games, their longest since they won a club-record nine in a row Aug. 26-Sept. 5, 1997.

``Mission accomplished here,’’ manager Clint Hurdle said. ``Now we have to pick up and go down the road. We still have unfinished business.’’

The Rockies are off Monday before they open a three-game series against the Dodgers in Los Angeles on Tuesday. They then return to Coors Field for a three-game series against NL West-leading Arizona that will wrap up the regular season. And then?

``We haven’t gotten involved in math,’’ Hurdle said. ``We’ll just play the next game and see where that puts us.’’

Thanks to eight strong innings from Jeff Francis -- as he equaled the franchise record with his 17th win this season -- and the off day, the bullpen should be fully rested for the opener in Los Angeles, and cleanup hitter Matt Holliday said he also will be ready to return to the lineup after missing the last two games with a strained oblique muscle.

``You want to be part of this,’’ Holliday said. ``Things are happening.’’

Strange things, included.

On Sunday, Garrett Atkins had his first inside-the-park home run since Little League, ``if you want to count one of those balls you hit between the outfielders and it just keeps rolling.’’ The Padres lost center fielder Mike Cameron and left fielder Milton Bradley in back-to-back innings. And Brad Hawpe continued his sudden surge against left-handed pitchers.

Cameron suffered a swollen right hand when he fell chasing Atkins’ drive, in the seventh, and Bradley became so enraged at an ejection by first base umpire Mike Winters in the eighth that Bradley suffered a right knee injury when manager Bud Black threw him to the ground to keep him from bumping Winters. Cameron and Bradley will both undergo MRIs before joining the Padres in San Francisco.

Hawpe not only singled to ignite a four-run fourth against Greg Maddux on Sunday, he also homered off lefty Justin Hampson in the ninth, which came in the aftermath of his run-scoring single off Hampson in Saturday’s 6-2 victory, and delivering the game-winning home run off lefty Joe Thatcher in Friday’s 2-1, 14-inning victory.

But then abnormal has become normal for the Rockies.

This is a team that was 18-27 back in mid-May. In the 15 days from July 26 through Aug. 10 they lost Opening Day starter Aaron Cook, No. 3 starter Rodrigo Lopez and No. 4 starter Jason Hirsh to season-ending injuries. Last weekend they lost two out of three – at home – to a Florida team that shares the worst record in the NL with Pittsburgh.

Yet, here the Rockies are, peeking at scoreboards that show Philadelphia losing 6-3 to Washington, and then going about the business at hand of taking on the challenge of future Hall of Famer Greg Maddux and his Padres teammates and not backing down.

Todd Helton doubled home a run in the third, and capped off a four-run rally with an RBI-single in the fourth, while Maddux failed to survive the fourth inning, the second shortest start of the 27 he has made in his career against the Rockies, and the shortest of the 13 stats outside of Coors Field.

Francis, meanwhile, followed up his 3-1 victory against the Dodgers on Tuesday by allowing two runs in eight innings, his second strong start in a row on the heels of a fourth-inning knockout at Philadelphia when he let a 3-0 first-inning lead disappear on Sept. 13.

``I don’t need any motivation to try and pitch well,’’ Francis said.

Francis controlled the Padres other than Bradley, who homered in the fourth, and Evergreen High alum Kevin Kouzmanoff who drove in the other run that Francis gave up with the third of his three doubles in the eighth.

That allowed him to match the 17 wins that Kevin Ritz compiled in 1996 and Pedro Astacio equaled in 1999, and puts Francis in position to break the single-season record in his final scheduled start of the season, Friday night at Coors Field against Arizona.

``That will be nice to think about in the offseason,’’ Francis said. ``But it’s not what is the focus right now.’’

The Rockies, after all, have the sights set on a wild-card berth.

I LOVE THE ROCKIES!


I LOVE THE ROCKIES!


I LOVE THE ROCKIES!


I LOVE THE ROCKIES!






PLEASE KEEP WINNING!

In the past...the Rockies took a back seat to the Broncos once football season started.

They are 1 1/2 games in the standings of winning the wild card and just swept the Padres.

This is getting good.


As a sports fan and a Colorado SPORTS fan...this is good to see.

Originally Posted by Snapping Turtle

I LOVE THE ROCKIES!


I LOVE THE ROCKIES!


I LOVE THE ROCKIES!


I LOVE THE ROCKIES!






PLEASE KEEP WINNING!

Amen to that Sistah Snapp!

You guys going to make the playoffs this year? Haven't you won like 10 games in a row? Or am I thinking of another team?

Originally Posted by Watchthemiddle

In the past...the Rockies took a back seat to the Broncos once football season started.

They are 1 1/2 games in the standings of winning the wild card and just swept the Padres.

This is getting good.


As a sports fan and a Colorado SPORTS fan...this is good to see.

Let me tell yeah, usually at this time of the year I stop caring so much about the Rockies and my brain has made its shift from baseball to football season. Not this year! SmithOverTO and I knew from even before Spring Training this was going to be a special year for the Rockies.

The Broncos lost? SO WHAT! The Rockies are on a roll and this is the best season EVER!!!!!!


Sneaks, we are on an 8 game winning streak. Don't think it will last much longer, we cant be THAT lucky (or talented haha).

I <3 teh HotRox!

Originally Posted by Kapaibro

I <3 teh HotRox!

I love teh Hot Rox tooo!!!