In one of the most amazing story in sports, the Colorado Rockies will be playing in the 2007 World Series. The Rockies have been in existence for little over a decade and have spent many of those years near the bottom of the league. Even this year, the Rockies struggled to play .500 baseball. Then in an amazing run to end the season, the Rockies won 13 of their last 14 games to force a one game play-in game for the wild card spot.In that game, the Padres took a 2 run lead in the top of the 13th inning - and the Rockies scored 3 runs in the bottom of the inning, in what should be considered the greatest play of the year as Holliday took a face plant into homeplate as the catcher blocked the plate and then dropped the ball. Then the Rockies carried that momentum into sweeping the Phillies and the Diamondbacks.
What has made this season even more amazing is that this team that is pretty much ignored by all MLB media - and the team may end up not only as World Champs, but also the NL MVP (Holliday), Rookie of the Year (Tulowitzki), and Manager of the Year (Hurdle). Go Rockies!
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Well, the Rox got swept by the Sox in the World Series. The Rockies became a bit of a national joke (Mr. Letterman) but it still was an amazing run and only time will tell if the Rockies can ever make it back to the fall classic.
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