Before Game 163, when Matt Holliday hustled home on a shallow sacrifice fly ball to help clinch Colorado’s first spot in the postseason in eight years, the star left fielder did a lot for his club in 2007 leading up to the controversial play. Holliday’s value that season was prevalent through the 162 games leading up to the critical matchup…

Long before Trevor Story (2016-present) occupied shortstop for the Colorado Rockies, there existed an era between that of Walt Weiss (1994-97) and Troy Tulowitzki (2007-15). Neifi Neftali Pérez (1998-2001) signed with Colorado as an international free agent at the age of 18 before his organization ever took the field in 1992. So long ago that he plied his trade in…

On the Colorado Rockies version of Mt. Rushmore, there are three indisputable faces inscribed. The first belongs to Todd Helton, Mr. Rockie, who spent 17 seasons in the Majors and two years in the minors, all with Colorado. The second belongs to Larry Walker, the first and to this point still only, Hall-of-Famer in franchise history. The third belongs to…

By the time he was 29-years-old, Randy Johnson still had difficulty hitting the broad side of the barn after four-plus seasons in the majors. When he finally tamped down a 5.7 walks-per-nine, the southpaw’s fastball could pierce right through that red-painted maple siding. Later, he would manage the same results with the ash bats held by opposing hitters who dared…

Following an outstanding 2007 season that saw Matt Holliday fall short of winning the second NL MVP in franchise history, the Oklahoma native put forth an equally impressive 2008 in his final year before being traded to the Oakland Athletics. Entering a three-game series at home versus Atlanta, Holliday had a slash line of .182/.280/.364 through the first six games…

With three Opening Day celebrations on this date, only one did not result in a win. Although Colorado would lose 8-6 to the Diamondbacks in the first game of 2007, the year would be the most successful in franchise history. Even after the 8-6 loss at the hands of Arizona to begin the season, Colorado would enter play on May…

DENVER – There is a baseball field at 20th and Blake where the air is thin and the outfield is vast. When things started to get a little bit crazy in the late 90s and into the new millennium, they employed a humidor to try to make it more like baseball in other places. It’s still a park that…...

DENVER – The mood was somber inside a Rockies clubhouse on Sunday still raw after a 6-0 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers in an elimination game at home, the first in as long as many from the Centennial State can remember. The space was filled coaches, teammates and friends descended upon by numerous members of the press who stuck around…...

DENVER – It didn’t take long to realize on Sunday that Colorado would need to travel to Los Angeles for game 163. After two runs in the first inning against San Francisco and another seven in the third, it was clear that neither the Giants nor the Nationals would decide the fate of the National League West. While San Francisco…...

DENVER – The history of the Colorado Rockies is marked mostly by lost seasons and a kind of malaise that means the club garners little to no national attention except when jokes are involved. One way the Rockies have been able to turn some heads over the years is to boast a roster that almost always features some exciting and…...

DENVER – On Nov. 11, 2008, news broke that the Colorado Rockies had completed a trade with the Oakland Athletics that, as time has now told, sent out one pillar of the franchise and replaced it with another. The best player on the most successful team in organization history, Matt Holliday, was sent out for a man who has now played…...

SAN DIEGO – Sparked by the heart of the Rockies lineup in the fourth inning, Jon Gray’s steady six-innings of work, and three scoreless frames by the bullpen, Colorado snapped a two-game skid and entered their biggest month of their season with a 4-2 victory over the Padres. With only two runs scored in two games this series against the…...

DENVER – Here’s a taste of the yesterday’s post-game and today’s pre-game banter before the rubber match of a three-game series with the Cardinals: Bud Black on German Marquez’s performance in game two: “He threw great. I told him that was one of the best games he’s pitched this season. I thought his fastball had life, it had hop through…...

On this episode of the BSN Rockies Podcast, Drew Creasman and Patrick Lyons break down a crazy wild game between the Colorado Rockies and the St. Louis Cardinals that began as a classic pitcher’s duel and turned into a blowout when the home team put up eight runs in the eighth inning. Matt Holliday hit his first home run back…...

DENVER – The crowd rose to their feet whether they were wearing purple or red to pay respect to Matt Holliday, a pillar of both the Colorado Rockies and St. Louis Cardinals. But the man they call “Bid Daddy” wasn’t stepping into the box thinking about a past that is more than worthy of celebration. He stepped in ready to…...

DENVER – Author Thomas Wolfe surmised, “you can’t go home again” in his 1940 posthumous novel of the same name. Matt Holliday and the Colorado Rockies don’t care much for that idiom. After nine years away from the Colorado Rockies with stops in Oakland, St. Louis and New York, Holliday has returned to Colorado, his home for the first five…...

DENVER – The Colorado Rockies came into their three-game set against the San Diego Padres riding high with some of their best wins of the season coming during a 30-16 stretch against teams with winning records. There was concern that facing a team far below that mark might result in a letdown and while that almost happened, they were saved…...

DENVER – Thursday morning’s announcement that all-time Colorado Rockies great Matt Holliday would once again don the purple pinstripes didn’t come as a major shock to anyone who had been following the news with him over the last few weeks....

DENVER – If you are a Colorado Rockies fan, you might have woken up on Monday morning asking yourself a few questions. What just happened? How did this happen? Is this real life? Will this continue? In brief, the Colorado club just produced one of the most impressive stretches of baseball in franchise history—and recent MLB history—by trusting in their…...