The Rockies wild ride to the world series

The game that propelled the Colorado Rockies into the playoffs and ultimately the world series. But before that they had an uphill struggle to compete against. Their record had them twenty-one games out of play off contention with twenty-one games left to play. In other words they couldn’t lose a single game for the rest of the season.

In September 2007, instead of going to class, I went to see the Rockies play a day night double header against the Los Angeles Dodgers. This was going to be a test for this young ball club. The Rockies won the day game with the same fashion as they did the night game.

With the Rockies losing in the bottom of the ninth yet again Mr. Clutch as I call him, Todd Helton comes up to bat. The Dodgers are swept by the Rockies. This team still needs to continue their momentum. They are chasing the Arizona Diamondbacks for the division title and the San Diego Padres for the wild card position.

Every fan in Denver is score board watching and hoping that the Padres lose to help the Rockies. As the wild card chase continues between the Rockies and Padres, there is little room for error for either team.

There was one game in which The Arizona Diamondbacks came into town and the Rockies lost. The Diamondbacks (aka garden snakes) started celebrating on our infield and it drew a chorus of boos from the fans. The next night the Rockies crushed them.

As this thing was heating up, fans were crowding around the televisions in the gift shop at Coors Field watching the Milwaukee Brewers playing the San Diego Padres. The Padres lost, which kept the Rockies in contention. As the season was drawing to a close we all knew there was going to be but one outcome and that was a game one hundred sixty-three between these two…