Colorado Rockies is a MLB team located in Denver, Colorado, affiliated to the National League West District.
was established in 1991 and officially launched a military team in 1993. The home court was Coors Field. The team name is taken from the Rocky Mountains surrounding Denver.
won the first National League championship in team history in 2007, but was swept out by four consecutive defeats in the World Series by Boston Red Sox.
The team founded
Colorado Rockies formed its army in 1993. The home position is in Denver, Colorado, . The team name is taken from the Rockies surrounding Denver. The height of the city of Denver is exactly one mile from the sea level, and the air is thinner. The ball hit by the hitter can fly higher and farther due to the smaller air resistance, so it is often called the "Slayer Paradise (Pitcher Cemetery)".
- April 5, 1993 Rockain played the first game in team history with New York Metropolitan , and the team lost 0:3. Three days later, April 9 was the team's first game at home Mile High Stadium. It won 11:4 against the visiting Montreal Expo. The game attracted 80,227 fans to watch, breaking the record of the number of spectators in a single game in the Major League [1]. Since Denver citizens only won the right to join the major league after years of hard work, they enthusiastically supported the team. They exceeded 3 million spectators in the 53rd home game, and also broke the record of the fastest number of games (61 games) set by the Toronto Bluebirds in 1992. The total number of spectators in the first year was 4,483,350, setting a record in the major league. But because it was the first year of the new army, with a record of only 67 wins and 95 losses, first baseman Grelaga won the league's strike king with a .370 strike rate, and he was also the first Venezuelan player to win the title of strike king.
- By 1994, the enthusiasm of fans remained unabated. In Game 52, more than three million spectators entered the game to watch the game, breaking the record of the previous year, but ended the season early with 53 wins and 64 losses due to the players' strike.
In 1995, the home stadium moved to the newly completed Coors Field (Coors Field, a famous American beer brand), which can accommodate more than 50,000 spectators. On June 25 of the same year, Greraga hit a home run for three consecutive innings, making him the fourth player in league history. Infielder Castilla was selected for the Star Game and became the first player in the team history to start in the Star Game. After the season, the Rockies advanced to the playoffs for the first time with a wild card qualification, but was knocked back by the Atlanta Warriors in the 1995 National League Divisional Tournament. Head coach Don Baylor was awarded the National League Head Coach of the Year because he led the new team into the playoffs within three years.
2007
2007 catching up in the late stage of the season. After the last game of the season, he tied for the first place in the wild card with 89 wins and 73 losses with San Diego Padres , so he needs to play in the 163rd game to decide which team can advance to the wild card. Rocky and Padres sent Josh Foger and Jake Peavy to start, but neither of them performed well, allowing the two teams to tie the game 6:6 in the regular nine-innings to enter the extended extra game. Although he was hit by Scott Helston with a two-point home run in the extended 13 innings, Rocky scored an 8-point lead by two second-base hits and a three-base hit stick to tie the score, and finally defeated the Padres 9-8 with Jamie Cairo's goodbye Goofy, successfully qualifying for wild card to enter the playoffs.
swept the Philadelphia Philadelphia [2] in the National League Division Championship and the National League Championship, swept the Arizona Diamondbacks in a straight-down three-point victory in the National League Championship. Rocky won the first National League championship in team history with a record of seven games and entered the World Championship.In the 2007 World Championship, the third and fourth games were also the first World Championships held at Coors Stadium, but Rocky lost to the Red Sox and was swept straight to four times.
2009
2009 Rocky's opening season was quite bad, and in late May, he only won 19 wins and 28 losses. Head coach Clint Herdo was fired on May 29 and replaced by bench coach Jim Tracy. After the head coach substitution, the Rockies scored 21 wins and 7 losses in June, setting a record of winning games in a single month in team history (one more than the original record in September 2007), and also allowed Rockies to climb from less than 50% of the winning rate to 41 wins and 36 losses. In June, they scored 151 points and led the league. Right fielder Brad Hope and starting pitcher Jason Marquez were selected for the 2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game for the Rockies.
On August 10, star shortstop Troy Toloviski made the fifth complete blow in team history. He also performed a three-kill defense against the Warriors on April 29, 2007, becoming the only player in the league history to reach two records.
At home on August 24, the two teams tied 1:1 in the regular nine innings and entered the playoffs. The Giants first scored 3 points in the first half of the 14th innings, but Rocky first recovered 1 point with 3 walks and one hit. At the full base, Ryan Spilber hit a team-time starter home run for the first time in the history of the team. This slam cannon was also the second home run and the first home run for Spielber's career. In the end, Rocky defeated the Giants 6:4 to win.
After sweeping the Brewers in a straight three-down win on October 1, Rocky won the 91st win, setting a new record for the 90-win team set in 2007, and also means that the Rocky team can advance to the playoffs for the second time in three years. The last three games will face the Los Angeles Dodgers, striving to compete for the first NFC championship in team history and setting a record of winning in team history. Rocky only won one series against the Dodgers this year, but lost five series in a row. Although he won the first victory of the series and won the 92nd victory, he won the next two games, handing over the Chinese and Western Conference champion to the Dodgers, and he could only advance to the playoffs with wild card qualifications.
- Rocky met the Philadelphia Phillies in the NFC Division Series. In the first game, Rocky sent Uvaldo Jimenez, the opponent was Cliff Lee, but Rocky only hit a few sporadic hits and could not cause damage to Lee, and finally lost the game 1:5. The second game was played by Aaron Cook against Cole Hanmels, and Rocky won 5:4, drawing the series one-to-one. In the third game, Jason Hamel fought against J.A. Hap. Both sides had a line-up interaction, which also allowed both starters to be replaced early. However, in the 9th innings, the Phillies took advantage of the unstable ending of Houston Street to get ahead. The whereabouts of Rocky could not break through the blockade of Phillies' terminator Brad Liji, so Rocky lost the game 5:6 and fell behind with 1 win and 2 losses in the series.
- In the fourth game, both sides sent Jimenez and Li to start again. The pitchers on both sides exerted strong suppression. Until the whereabouts of 8 innings, the whereabouts of Li took advantage of Li's physical decline, the infield mistakes and the unstable Ryan Madson scored 3 points ahead and pulled the score to 4:2 to lead. In the 9th game, Rocky replaced the terminator Stret, but after two outs, he lost 3 points due to one walk and two hits, Rocky fell behind 4:5. The whereabouts of Rocky Care still cannot break through Li Ji's blockade in 9 games. Although Li Ji's performance in these two games is not stable, Rocky Care cannot grasp it. In the end, he lost the National League Division Series with 1 win and 3 losses, and the season ended.
2010
On April 17, starting pitcher Uvaldo Jimenez shot the first no-hit game in the history of the Rockies against the Atlanta Warriors away, and it was also the first no-hit game in his career. In this game, he shot a total of 128 goals, scored 7 strikeouts and 6 walks, and finally led Rocky to defeat the Warriors 4-0.
- Jimenez won the MLB best pitcher in April this year, and he is the second pitcher in Rocky's history to win this award. He started five games in April, achieving five straight wins and a 0.79 defense rating, setting a record of no points loss for starting pitchers in the team history, starting from the no-hit match on April 17 until he lost points in the fourth inning against the Padres on May 3, and did not lose any points in the middle 25.1 innings. Jimenez also won the MLB best pitcher in May, and was the first prize-winning pitcher in the Rockies history. He scored 5 wins, 1 defeat and 0.78 defense rating in May. From the 7th inning against the Washington Nationals on May 15, to the 7th inning against the Diamondbacks on June 6, he lost no points in the middle, breaking his own and team history's record of no points.
- Jimenez's good performance in April and May also made him and shortstop Troy Toloviski be selected for the 2010 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. He won 11 wins in the first 12 starts of the season, with a defense ratio of only 0.93. The star won 15 wins and 1 defeat in 18 starts before the game, with a good result of 2.20 in the defense ratio, but the star only won 4 wins and 7 losses after the game, and finally settled the season with 19 wins and 8 defeats in the defense ratio of 2.88.
- On April 21, team president Keli McGregor was found dead suddenly at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah at the age of 48, and Rocky also held a commemoration ceremony on September 28.
- On July 30, in the home game against Chicago Cubs , Rocky scored 12 points in 8 innings with 13 hits, including 5 first hits, 5 second hits, 1 triple hits and 2 home runs, setting a team record for the highest score in a single inning inning in the history of the team, and finally won 17:2.
2011 - 2016
2011 began to play the season with the start and end of the season. After a good result of 17 wins and 8 losses in April, it only scored 8 wins and 21 losses in May, and then it was slumped until the end of the season. In the middle of the season, Uvaldo Jimenez, a struggling starting pitcher this year, traded to the Cleveland Indians.
Starting pitcher Jamie Moyer, signed at the beginning of the 2012 season, won the victory against the Padres on April 18, becoming the oldest age in the major leagues to win the victory at 49 years and 150 days. Since the Rockies only scored 64 wins and 98 losses this season, the playoff head coach Jim Tracy resigned and was replaced by Wat Weiss.
In 2013, Rockies had a good start season with 13 wins and 4 losses, and it remained at a winning rate of 50% until the end of June, but began to play consecutive results with fewer wins and more losses. Mike Cardel set a team record of 27 consecutive hits between May 28 and June 30. Rocky's "Mountain God" Todd Hilton announced that he would retire after the end of the season. On September 25, he played his last home game at Coors Stadium, but Rocky lost to the Red Sox 5-15.
In 2014, Rocky started with a good start of 22 wins and 14 losses at the beginning of the season, but started losing again in the middle of the season like in previous years. Nolan Arinado scored 28 consecutive hits between April 9 and May 8, setting a new team record set by Mike Cardel last year. On August 17, Rocky officially retired Todd Hilton's No. 17 back.
2015 Rockies still couldn't make good results, and traded team star Troy Toloviski and Ratroy Huggins to Toronto Blue Jays for shortstop Jose Reyes and three minor league players in the season.
On April 4, 2016, rookie shortstop Trevor Storey made his second major league career hit from Zach Greenkey , which was also a three-point home run.He hit a home run from Greenkey again in the next playoffs, the seventh player who can shoot a double shot from Greenkey [3], and also became the sixth player in major league history to hit a double shot when he first appeared. Among them, Storey was the only player who made a debut in the team's opening game. The next day, he became the third player to knock three home runs in the first two games of his career, following Charlie Riley and Joe Cunningham. . On the third day, he knocked a two-pointer from the Rattlers' Patrick Cobin, becoming the first player in major league history to hit home runs in the first three games of his career and home runs at home for the first four hits in his career.
In his fourth game, he shot double-fire guns from San Diego Padres' Colin Rea and Ryan Buchter, becoming the first player to hit home runs in the first four games of his career, and the first player in major league history to hit six home runs in the first four games of the season. Although Storey failed to hit a home run in Game 5 of his career, he hit a home run from Brandon Maurer in Game 6, setting a major league record of the most home runs (7) in the team's first six games, setting a record of six home runs originally set by Larry Walker, Mike Schmidt and Willie Mays. also won Storry the National League Player of the Week Award in the first week of the season.
In the away game against the San Francisco Giants on May 5, Rocky scored 13 points in the top single innings in 5 innings, setting a record for the team's highest score in a single inning innings, and finally won the game 17:7. Trevor Storey also hit his 11th home run from Matt Kane in this game, tying George Scott's first 27 career games. In this game, Rockies only had one player left in five rounds and scored 13 points with 10 hits.
2017
2016 season ended and former Santiago Padres head coach Bard Brack took over the talisman, and signed outfielder Ian Desmond and support pitcher Greg Holland who had just recovered from the reconstructive ulnar appendage ligament.
At the beginning of the season, it was once joined by the Rattlesnakes and the Padres to squeeze the Giants and Dodges into the last two places in the division, but after Dodge's crazy winning streak, even the rear lights of Dodges could not be seen in a blink of an eye.
In order to strengthen combat power to fight the playoffs, the mid-season traded to the Philadelphia Phillies with a backup pitcher Pat Nisseck and the Texas Rangers traded to force the capturer Johnson Lukroy.
Although Rocky's competitiveness declined a bit in the second half of the season, it was followed by the Brewers and Cardinals. With the solid foundation laid in the first half of the season, it held on to the pressure at the last moment, and with the help of the Cardinals' 7:6 defeating Brewers, it won the last wild card ticket and will go to Phoenix to face the Rattlers, with the ace pitcher Jon Gray against Zach Greenkey.
Rock's line play has always been popular, which is related to the home court to a certain extent, but it often turns its own pitchers into serve machines. However, this year, Rocky has indeed done a good job in creating a rolling ball and is ranked among the top 10 in the major leagues. In the end, although Rocky lost 8:11 in the blowout melee, it was already a proud successful season.
Charlie Blackmon scored 104 RBIs this season, setting a record for the largest RBI in the first single season. Many young pitchers are also beginning to mature, and the future is worth looking forward to.
2018
Having experienced returning to the playoffs last year, Rocky spent a lot of money to sign three backup pitchers, Wade Davis, Brian Xiao and Jack McGee.
- benefited from the Dodge's season and the wave of casualties continued. Rocky and Rattlesnakes joined forces to take over the top two. However, Dodge's adjustment speed was very fast, and in a blink of an eye, it returned to the ranks of competition, forming a situation where the three strong players in the West of China were once again in a row. Rocky therefore traded to Toronto Bluebirds in the middle of the season and Wu Shenghuan strengthened his bullpen combat power.
- After the Rattlesnake collapsed in September, Rocky became the last challenger to block Dodge Country's Xilianba. The two sides were entangled all the way, and it was still difficult to separate after playing 162 regular games, which also made the National League East Champion Warriors, who lost the final match of the routine, have to wait until the Rocky and Dodges have finished their extra game before they can determine their opponent.
- and Rocky opened fire in the last game. Nolan Arinado made a double shot and Charlie Blackmon made a complete blow. In addition, the starting pitcher Taylor Anderson lost no points in 7.2 innings, and slaughtered the visiting Washington Nationals 12:0, winning the opportunity to compete with the Dodgers for the Western Conference championship in the extra game. After winning the last game at home, Rocky started a long-distance trip and flew to Los Angeles to compete for the first NFC West Championship in team history, but ultimately lost to Dodges 2:5 and missed the first NFC Champion in team history. And after the game, he had to fly to Chicago to deal with the Chicago Bears.
In the NFC wild card slashing throat game, Rocky and Bears did not play their blows. They still tied 1:1 after 9 innings, until after 2 out of 13 innings, Rocky relied on three consecutive first bases to hit the key second point, and finally narrowly defeated the Bears 2:1. After the game, we will continue to , milwaki , challenge the Milwaki Brewers to participate in the National League Division Series.
However, in the NFC divisional battle, the Rocky's line continued to be sluggish, with only 2 points in the offense in 28 games (plus the extra game and wild card slashing throat battle, Rocky only scored 6 points in 50 games in 5 games), and was swept straight to three times by the Brewers, ending this season.
2019 - So far,
- 2019 signed Daniel Murphy to strengthen his infield strength and maintained a winning rate of about 50% at the end of June, but it collapsed in seven or eight months, and finally ended the season with a record of 71 wins and 91 losses.
- However, after experiencing the regretful season in 2019, owner Dick Vermont not only did not seek reinforcement in the free market, but also delivered a speech in early February 2020, optimistically believed that the team could achieve 94 wins and 68 losses, and Rocky was also the only team that did not sign a major league contract with any player during the offseason.
- In 2020, due to the COVID-19 epidemic, the major league officials announced that they would suspend spring training indefinitely on March 12, and it was not until June that they announced that they would resume spring training in early July, and 60 regular seasons were held on July 24. Ian Desmond announced on his Instagram account that due to the epidemic, he will not play this season. The Rockies also led the NFC West with 11 wins and 4 losses at the beginning of the season, and outfielder Blackmon even accumulated a .500 strike rate on August 11, and the Rockies are considered to have a pretty high chance of entering the playoffs. Although the Baltimore Orioles traded to support pitcher Michael Givings and the Boston Red Sox outfielder Kevin Pira strengthened their combat power, the collapse of many pitchers had no relationship with the young hitters, and in the end they only scored 26 wins and 34 losses. Even though the major league officials announced that they would increase the number of playoffs this year, they still missed the playoffs.
- 2021, on April 2, in the match against the Los Angeles Dodgers, 4 home runs were hit by 7 innings in the second half of the 7 innings, hit by Blackmon, McMahon, Nunez and Hillard, which was also the second time in team history, four single-inning four-match. On April 7, the major league official suddenly announced that this year's Major League Baseball All-Star Game was changed from the Atlanta Warriors home to the Rockies' home court, which is also the second time the Coors' Stadium held the star game after 1998. On April 27, the Rockies announced the dismissal of general manager Jeff Bridchi, and on May 4, Bill Schmidt was announced as interim general manager. The biggest controversy during Bridchi's tenure was the deterioration of relationship with team star Nolan Arinado, and finally traded Arinado to the St. Louis Cardinals on February 1, 2021.
Major League Baseball Hall of Fame member
- Lary Woker was selected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 2020 with a vote rate of 76.57%.
Retired back number
- 17 Tower Hilton
- 33 Larry Walker
- 42 Jackie Robinson (all teams in the major leagues have retired this back number)
affiliated minor league teams
From 2021, the major league officials have taken back the administrative leadership of the minor leagues and named the official official name of the minor leagues as the Professional Development Leagues.
- 3A: Albuquerque Isotopes, Triple-A West
- 2A: Hartford Yard Goats, 2A Northeast Alliance (Double-A Northeast)
- High Order1A:Spokane Indians,Spokane Indians,High-A West,
- Low-A Grizzlies,Low-A West,
