Rocket can't hold lead as Rockies sweep
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The New York Yankees couldn't wait to get back to Coors Field after scoring a record 41 times on their first trip to the Colorado Rockies' ballpark five years ago. This time, they couldn't get out of town fast enough.
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The last thing Barry Bonds cared to discuss was his latest step toward Hank Aaron's home run record. Getting swept at home by the Colorado Rockies for the first time stung.
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Don't expect Matt Holliday and the Colorado Rockies to be intimidated by the Green Monster. Back in June, long before their historic surge to an unlikely NL pennant, the baby-faced Rockies roared into Fenway Park and took two of three from the Red Sox
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The Houston Astros used a Jeff Bagwell home run and a gutsy pitching effort by its bullpen to beat the Colorado Rockies 4-2 Friday and hold on to its lead in the National League wild card race.
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Nick Markakis hit a two-run homer and scored twice, leading the Baltimore Orioles past Jeff Francis and the Colorado Rockies 4-2 Friday night. Steve Trachsel (5-4) allowed two runs and seven hits in six innings for the Orioles, who have won two straight following a five-game skid. Trachsel walked one and had a season-high five strikeouts.
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The Colorado Rockies knocked off the  New York Yankees 4-3 to complete a three-game series sweep on  Thursday and deny Roger Clemens his 350th career victory.
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The Astros charge into the playoffs with their 18th consecutive home victory, capping an incredible turnaround by beating Colorado 5-3 Sunday to win the NL wild card.
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Aided by a six-run fifth, the Rockies scored 12 runs in the middle three innings to sweep three games from the Mets for the first time since July 1996.
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As the Boston Red Sox kept shooting double after double down the lines and into the gaps, the Cleveland Indians, Los Angeles Angels and New York Yankees must have wondered whether they would have flattened the Rockies, too.
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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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David Wright hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer in the ninth inning and the New York Mets completed a doubleheader sweep with a 4-2 victory over the Colorado Rockies.
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The Colorado Rockies avoided a series sweep at the hands of the New York Mets by getting some unexpected pop from the top and bottom of their lineup.
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ATLANTA - The Houston Astros thought they got a break when illness prevented Roger Clemens from pitching as scheduled in the team's NL wild-card berth clincher. Because Clemens missed Sunday's game, the Rocket started against the Atlanta Braves in the NL division series opener Wednesday...
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(Sports Network) - Roger Clemens tries to win his seventh straight decision and possibly vault the Houston Astros into the lead in the National League wild card standings, as they go for a three-game sweep of the NL Central champion St.
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HOUSTON - Roger Clemens was scratched from Houston's critical regular-season finale against the Colorado Rockies on Sunday after coming down with a stomach virus, missing a chance to help the Astros clinch the NL's wild-card spot.    With a victory over the Rockies or a San Francisco loss at Los Angeles, Houston would clinch the final playoff spot...
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Game 4 on Sunday will be Aaron Cookâs first time pitching in a major league game since Aug. 10, and there does not seem to be anyone on the Rockies worried about how he will fare.
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Derek Lowe won his seventh straight decision and the Los Angeles Dodgers held on to their lead in the NL wild-card race by overcoming a three-run deficit to beat the Colorado Rockies 6-4 on Wednesday night.