World Series Notebook: Helton Always Knew Rockies Had It in Them
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Todd Helton has let his emotional guard down a little more each step of the journey to the World Series, starting with the wild-card tie breaker against San Diego to seal a playoff spot.
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The Colorado Rockies settled right back in at Petco Park. Jason Jennings threw a two-hitter, facing four over the minimum, and Matt Holliday, Brad Hawpe and rookie Ryan Spilborghs homered to lead the Rockies to a 5-0 victory over the San Diego Padres on Monday night.
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DENVER - Trips to Boston serve as fitting bookends to the story that is Aaron Cook . Last week he joined the Rockies at Fenway Park for Games 1 and 2 of the World Series, and certainly that visit was a reward for the perseverance he has shown in his career.
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Thousands of World Series fans will soon be converging on LoDo, a thriving section of downtown that is home to the Colorado Rockies' Coors Field. Fifteen years ago, they would have been warned to stay away.
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The Rockies, winners of 10 in a row and 21 of 22 over all, are enduring an unprecedented eight-day layoff before Game 1 of the World Series.
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In the locker room late yesterday afternoon, Colorado reliever Matt Herges was saying how it used to be that nobody would embrace the chance to pitch at Coors Field, with its high altitude and reputation as a launching pad.
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TORONTO -- It was one of the more unusual examples of contract leverage in recent memory. When third baseman Mike Lowell agreed to sign a four-year extension with the Florida Marlins after they won the World Series in 2003, it included this stipulation: If the cash-strapped Marlins didn't obtain financing for a new stadium by the following November, Lowell had ...
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Something tells me Rockies manager Clint Hurdle is a guy who can deal with a 13-1 loss in the first game of the World Series. He knows it's not the end of the world. He knows there are other things more important. He has all the perspective any baseball man will ever need.
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Boston Red Sox beat Colorado Rockies 10-5 to go 3-0 up in the best-of-seven World Series.
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The Colorado Rockies came in with a swagger, this free-swinging wild-card bunch from the Mile High City who wore T-shirts that read, "Baseball with an Altitude," after winning 21 of their last 22 games to sweep their way to the National League pennant and the first World Series berth in franchise history.
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Jeff Francis was happy the Colorado Rockies gave him a long-term deal that covers his salary arbitration years.
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Just five major league teams since 1937 have had a run of 21 wins in 22 games, but only the Rockies have carried such a surge into the postseason. Colorado comes into Fenway Park tonight for Game 1 of the World Series not having lost a road game since Sept. 13, and is 15-3 in its last 18 contests away ...
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Dustin Pedroia and Kevin Youkilis had everything to do with why Boston advanced to Game 1 of the World Series on Wednesday against the Colorado Rockies.
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The Boston Red Sox crush the Colorado Rockies 13-1 in game one of the World Series.
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DENVER - On a day when Colorado pitching dominated at Coors Field, a bloop single by Jeromy Burnitz gave the Rockies a doubleheader sweep.
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It wasn't as if he'd become the invisible man. Aaron Cook still had a uniform, still had a locker at Coors Field, and still was drawing a paycheck. The Rockies brought him to Phoenix for the two National League Championship Series games there and he got sprayed with the same celebratory champagne as everybody else after Colorado swept the Diamondbacks ...
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Terry Francona was not oblivious to the news that Ozzie Guillen , who guided the White Sox to the World Series title in 2005, a year after Francona did the same with the Red Sox, had been given a contract extension through 2012.