The Padres lost their last two. The Mets lost their final game. The Phillies won the East, so the Rockies don’t need to worry about them anymore.
So it’s down to the Padres and the Rockies who will play a playoff to become the wild card winner of the National League on Monday.
As far as I’m concerned, that’s post-season play. It’s a game in October and it’s a game beyond the 162 regular season games. So by my reckoning the 2007 Rockies made the playoffs.
Woohoo!!! And they won 13 of their final fourteen to do it. San Diego may have their likely Cy Young winning Ace Jake Peavey on the mound on Monday, but they cannot be confident after losing their last two and six of their last ten. I said it would take a historic collapse of at least two teams for the Rockies to make the playoffs, and I think the Padres and the Mets delivered. In fact I wasn’t even looking at the Mets ten games ago because I thought they had sewn up the East and I thought the Phillies would have to collapse. It didn’t occur to me that the Mets would out-collapse the Phillies and end up out of the playoffs while the Phillies went on to win the East.
So tomorrow is the biggest day in Colorado baseball history since 1995. I would LOVE to see them whip Jake Peavey to get to the playoffs.
But just to have gotten this far is enough for me to say “How ’bout them Rockies!!”
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackCareful big fella. The Rockies still have to get through Peavey and the Padres are due a victory…and you guys are frankly due another loss.
The baseball gods are keeping score.
But, congrats to the Rockies for an historic run of victories and staying alive. I was actually pulling for them today. It would have looked bad for them to be beat by Arizona’s scrubs
Heh… those “scrubs” are major league baseball players even if they aren’t starters. But I hear ya.
I no longer am concerned with the season, the baseball gods or if the Rockies win tomorrow. The fact that they are playing tomorrow is all that I really care about. I am absolutely stunned that they pulled it off.
If they do manage to scrape out a victory tomorrow, this will have to go down in history as one of the, if not THE, most amazing playoff run in the history of the game.
If only for that reason I’d love to see them win. But right now I really don’t care. I’m just glad that they went through the entire regular season and then forced a final playoff game from the Padres. For the first time in 12 years the Rockies games MEANT something after mid-August. And they took it all the way to the final game, and for good measure, they forced one more.
One other note on Peavey. His Coors Field numbers are not that awesome, and he is, I think, 3 – 3 at Coors Field. And some of those games were not against THESE Rockies.
I am actually looking forward to next year.
Arizona will go against the Cubbies in the first round. I hope the curse is still in effect. I want to see the snakes go all the way. I’m greedy…
Aren’t you glad you’re not a Mets fan?
Let’s see, the Mets have won two world series, appeared in four and have been in the playoffs three times since 1995, making it to the world series in 2000…
Yeah, I could be a Mets fan…
Heh…I always get a kick out of us armchair athletes dissing the skills of major leaguers….
If you pitch on a major league team, you can be pretty sure that you’re one of the top 200 or so pitchers on the face of the planet….and that’s pretty elite company….
Hmm… I don’t remember dissing anyone, I just said that Peavey, as good as he undoubtedly is, has not had phenomenal success at Coors Field or against the Rockies.
I do take some vicarious pride in the fact that this is the second team that finagled their starting rotation to have their staff ace pitch against the Rockies. That’s something, even if they win.
The Rockies beat an Arizona line-up today that saw very little playing time this season. In that sense they were our ‘scrubs’, but I concede that if you’re on a big league roster you’ve got to be pretty darn good…
Mets fans are weeping, wailing, gnashing their teeth and, no doubt, hurling deserved dispersions at Mets management and players. I wouldn’t really want to be a Mets fan right now…
The Rockies went 8 – 8 against Arizona this year not counting the final two “scrub” games. Counting them, they went 10 – 8. If Mets fans are so upset, they should spend 12 years without getting to the playoffs to learn some perspective on life.
History aside, the Mets collapsed in spectacular fashion. Even Mets fans deserve to be a little heartbroken given the circumstances…
In the game that mattered most Arizona was 1-0.
Well, that game “mattered most” because of a lot of other circumstances, including 11 straight “mattered most” games the Rockies played leading up to that one game.
I have confidence that the Rockies are one of the top offensive teams in the league. They have five legitimate clutch performers (Holliday, Helton, Hawpe, Atkins and Tulowitzki) each of which have hit game-winning walk-off home runs, or grand slams, or gone 4-5 with 5 RBI, in critical games. When Holliday went out with a strain to his left oblique in the middle of their hot streak, Brian Hawpe simply stepped up and won those two games for the Rockies.
Now, that may not mean much against a guy who is leading the NL ERA race by 7/10s of a point, a lead I haven’t seen since Maddux’s heyday. I concede that the Rockies have a very difficult task in front of them tomorrow. One that may be beyond their means to overcome.
But I think this year sent a message to the NL. These Rockies are for real. I have no doubt that if they had not lost three of their starting pitchers to injury this season, things would be even better.
CC: Congratulations! I told you several weeks ago that eventually the will of the fans wins out over the probabilities.
You did everything right. You blessed them when necessary, and cursed them just in time to confuse the gods.
I wonder if The Rockies know the great debt you are owed.
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