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Quotes from FSN broadcast "21 Days to the World Series" March 8th
ON TODD HELTON’S WALK-OFF HOMERUN AGAINST LOS ANGELES ON SEPT. 18
Matt Holliday – “Every time I watch it I get that fuzzy feeling. You just start to relive it in your mind and I’ve probably watched it 10 times. It seems like everybody that comes over wants to watch it. I know before the season I’ll watch it again so that I can sort of take that enthusiasm into the game and take that enthusiasm for making it to the postseason.”
Jeff Francis – “I remember going home that night and I was watching every news station just trying to relive it again because walk-off homeruns do not happen very much and when they mean as much as that one did, gosh, it makes it so much fun.”
Dan O’Dowd – “The was one of the greatest moments in (Rockies) history right there and when I was watching it and watching his emotions explode, I actually became emotional myself. The mindset of the game changed after that.”
Jeff Huson – “Even though there are grown men playing a game and making a lot of money at times, but when it comes down to it, it’s still about competing and it’s still about winning. When you do something like what Todd did, that’s what we all dreamed about growing up. When he threw off his helmet and jumped about as high as I think he’s ever jumped in his life into the arms of his teammates, that is why you play sports.”
Tracy Ringolsby – “To me, it’s the most energizing moment in the history of the franchise. You see a guy who is very stoic, who’s very businesslike, and all of a sudden he hits that homerun and even he lets everybody know he’s going to share his emotions with the public. I had never seen that out of Todd before.”
ON THE RESURGENCE OF ROCKIES FANS IN DENVER
Clint Hurdle – “To come back from Los Angeles and see the place full (for the final regular season series against Arizona), to see LoDo vibrant again in that special kind of way that it can be, that is truly humbling. We all know how lonesome it can be down here (LoDo) from time to time. If you don’t believe me just ask some of the vendors and some of the parking people…single-handedly I was one of the people costing them their livelihood.”
Ringolsby – “I think the Rockies players and front office understood that the fans finally had something they could grasp. (After returning to Coors Field to face Arizona in the final regular season series) the fans came out and said, ‘If you give us something, we’re waiting, we’re dying, we’re hungry, we want it, we want to be behind you.’ I think that helped the players.”
ON EXCITEMENT OF THE PLAY-IN GAME AGAINST SAN DIEGO
Holliday – “It felt like this was special. No one else is playing, everybody is watching this game – this is a do or die moment. As a kid you dream about playing in a game where it is win or go home and here it was in front of us against the best pitcher (Trevor Hoffman) in the National League. It was just a huge challenge.”
-These quotes are from FSN broadcast "21 Day run to the World Series" on March 8th 2008.
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ON HOLLIDAY’S SLIDE INTO HOMEPLATE TO WIN THE PLAY-IN GAME
Holliday – “My original thought was that I was going to have to run him (Padres catcher Michael Barrett) over. I saw that he wasn’t in front of the plate so I ended up sliding head first which we all know is a no-no. I wouldn’t have done that but my momentum was going as if I was going to run (Barrett) over but now you can’t pull back and throw your feet out and slide feet first.”
Huson – “We’ve looked at the replay about 1,000 times (to see if Holliday touched home plate) and even at 1,001 times you cannot tell whether he did or didn’t.”
-These quotes are from FSN broadcast "21 Day run to the World Series" on March 8th 2008.
The 2007 National League Championship Series (NLCS), the second round of the 2007 National League playoffs, began on October 11 and ended on October 15. It was a best-of-seven series, with the Western Division champion Arizona Diamondbacks facing the wild card Colorado Rockies, also from the Western Division. The Rockies swept the series in four games to win their first ever pennant, extending a 17-1 run to 21-1 in the process. The Rockies played the American League champion Boston Red Sox in the 2007 World Series. Colorado's NLCS sweep was only the second NLCS sweep since the seven-game format was adopted in 1985, with the first being the Atlanta Braves' sweep in 1995.
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Colorado Rockies
After previous failed attempts to bring Major League Baseball to Colorado, by the early 1990s a team seemed to be a possibility in Denver. The Colorado Baseball Commission, led by banking executive Larry Varnell, was successful in getting Denver voters to approve a 0.1 percent sales tax to help finance a new baseball stadium. Also, an advisory committee was formed in 1990 by then-Governor of Colorado Roy Romer to recruit an ownership group. The group selected was led by John Antonucci, an Ohio beverage distributor, and Michael I. Monus, the head of the Phar-Mor drugstore chain. Local and regional companies—such as Erie Lake, Hensel Phelps Construction, KOA Radio, and the Rocky Mountain News—rounded out the group. On July 5, 1991, the National League approved Denver and Miami, Florida, as the sites for two expansion teams to begin play in 1993.[1]
The Rockies joined the National League in 1993, along with the Miami franchise, the Florida Marlins. The Rockies' first pick in the expansion draft was pitcher David Nied from the Atlanta Braves organization. Nied pitched 4 seasons for the Rockies.
2007 Rocktober
The Rockies began the 1st half of the 2007 season following the Dodgers, the Diamondbacks, and the Padres for most of the season. However, by August, Colorado showed a steady series of wins, while the Division-leading Dodgers began to struggle.
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, while the Padres held a steady lead on the National League wild card spot. The Diamondbacks eventually clinched the NL West division title, but the Rockies shot up with one of the greatest comebacks in baseball history. They were a major-league best 20-8 in September, after trailing 6 games on September 1st. They won their last 13 of 14 games, including 11 in a row, the most of any team in the 2007 season and an all-time franchise record. Their 90-73 regular season mark set a franchise record. They also finished ahead of the Dodgers in the division for the first time in franchise history. Furthermore, Colorado set the single-season MLB record for fielding percentage by one team (.98925).
As a result of the Rockies' remarkable September run, the team finished the regular season tied with the Padres for the wild card spot in the playoffs. The two teams played a regular season play-off game at Coors Field on October 1 to determine the wild card. The game lasted thirteen innings, and although the Padres got two runs off of a Scott Hairston home run in the top of the thirteenth to break a 6-6 tie, the Rockies came back in the bottom of the thirteenth by scoring three runs off of closer Trevor Hoffman to win 9-8. Second baseman Kazuo Matsui started off the inning by hitting a double. Shortstop Troy Tulowitzki followed with a double of his own, thus, allowing Matsui to score. Left fielder Matt Holliday then came up to bat and hit a triple, scoring Tulowitzki. After an intentional walk to first baseman Todd Helton, the Padres pitched to utility infielder Jamey Carroll, who then hit a sacrifice fly, allowing Holliday to score from third base. Matt Holliday's winning run came off of a controversial slide in which home plate umpire Tim McClelland called Holliday safe, despite replays being inconclusive as to whether Holliday had actually touched the plate. Thus did the Rockies complete the fifth greatest regular season comeback in Major League Baseball history.
With the win the Rockies made the playoffs for the first time since 1995, and went on to face the Philadelphia Phillies in the NLDS. Colorado won the first game in Philadelphia, 4-2. The Rockies also won the second game in Philadelphia, 10-5, with the help of Kazuo Matsui's 4th inning grand slam. On October 6, 2007, the Rockies completed a three-game sweep of the Phillies by winning 2-1 in Colorado. The three-game sweep was Colorado's first post-season series win in team history. The Rockies played in the NLCS against the Arizona Diamondbacks, who swept their own series against the Chicago Cubs in the NLDS. They won the first two games of the NLCS against the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix, then won their third game against the D-backs in Denver on Sunday, October 14th. That pushed their combined late-season (September 16 and after) and post-season run to 20 wins and just 1 loss, the single loss coming against Arizona on September 28, the 160th game of the season. This made them only the third team in the last half-century, and the first in the National League since the 1936 New York Giants, to have a 20-1 stretch at any point of a season. NLCS Game 4 was won by the Colorado Rockies by a score of six runs to four. This series win earned Colorado's first National League Championship victory in franchise history. The Rockies became the first team ever to sweep both the division series and league championship series in the same postseason. The club moved to 21-1 over all games played after September 15.
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