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2007 Colorado Rockies season

The Colorado Rockies' 2007 season started off with the team trying to improve on their 2006 record (76-86). They finished second in the National League West with a franchise record of 90 wins in 163 games and earned a playoff berth as the National League Wild Card team. The team would go on to lose the World Series to the Boston Red Sox, four games to none.

2007 Colorado Rockies

National League

West

Coors Field

Denver, Colorado

90–73 (.552)

2nd

Charles & Dick Monfort

Dan O'Dowd

Clint Hurdle

FSN Rocky Mountain
KTVD (My20)
Drew Goodman, Jeff Huson, George Frazier

KOA AM
Jeff Kingery, Jack Corrigan

The team's stretch run was among the greatest ever for a Major League Baseball team. Having a record of 76–72 at the start of play on September 16, the Rockies proceeded to win 14 of their final 15 regular season games.[1] The stretch culminated with a 9–8, 13-inning victory over the San Diego Padres in a one-game playoff for the wild card berth, a game that is considered to be part of the regular season. The Rockies then swept their first seven playoff games to win the National League pennant — the franchise's first-ever pennant. Thus, at the start of the World Series, the Rockies had won a total of 21 out of 22 games. Fans and media nicknamed the Rockies improbable run in October, Rocktober,[2] a play off the two names.


The streak then ended, as the Rockies were swept in the World Series by the Boston Red Sox. The Rockies drew 2,376,250 fans for the season, their highest total since 2002. The average home attendance was 28,978.


As of 2024 this was the only season the Rockies have ever made the World Series.

December 5, 2006: LaTroy Hawkins was signed as a by the Colorado Rockies.[3]

free agent

December 12, 2006: Jason Jennings was traded by the Colorado Rockies with Miguel Asencio to the Houston Astros for Willy Taveras, Taylor Buchholz and Jason Hirsh.

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January 30, 2007: Choo Freeman was released by the Colorado Rockies.

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February 18, 2007: Matt Herges was signed as a free agent by the Colorado Rockies.

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February 24, 2007: Steve Finley was signed as a free agent by the Colorado Rockies.

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May 13, 2007: Byung-hyun Kim was traded by the Colorado Rockies to the Florida Marlins for Jorge Julio.

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June 13, 2007: Steve Finley was released by the Colorado Rockies.

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August 15, 2007: Ramón Ortiz was traded by the Minnesota Twins to the Colorado Rockies for Matt Macri.

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August 19, 2007: Mark Redman was signed as a free agent by the Colorado Rockies.

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Troy Tulowitzki turned an unassisted triple play on April 29, 2007, in the top of the 7th inning in a 9-7 victory over the Atlanta Braves.[12][13] He became only the 13th player in Major League Baseball history to accomplish the feat.

Shortstop

Todd Helton hit his 300th career home run on September 16, 2007, in a 13-0 home win over the Florida Marlins.[14][15] He became the first player to hit 300 home runs for the Colorado Rockies.

First baseman

Colorado had an 11-game winning streak toward the end of the 2007 regular season, which set a franchise record for most consecutive wins in a season.

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The Rockies finished ahead of the in the division for the first time in franchise history.[17]

Los Angeles Dodgers

Colorado set an record for fielding percentage in one season (.98925).[18] Despite the Rockies record-setting performance, the National League coaches and players didn't vote in any of Colorado's players for the NL Gold Glove award. The two most puzzling omissions were first baseman Todd Helton and shortstop Troy Tulowitzki. Both players had a better fielding percentage, more total chances, better zone rating, more putouts, more double plays turned, better range factor and more assists than their counterparts who won the award instead (Chicago Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee and Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins). Helton also had fewer errors (2) than Lee (7), while Tulowitzki had as many errors as Rollins (11), but did so on 834 total chances compared to Rollins' 717.[19]

MLB

The Rockies became the first team in MLB history to sweep the (on June 19–21) and New York Mets (on July 2–4), both at home, in one season and second team to sweep two New York City teams in one season after the Milwaukee Braves in 1956.[20][21]

New York Yankees

named the Colorado Rockies the "Organization of the Year" for their accomplishments during the 2007 season.[22] "We knew they were bringing great talent through their farm system, but we certainly didn't expect it to pay off with big-league success so quickly", said Will Lingo, editor of Baseball America. "They won with homegrown players, have more talent on the way and have maintained stability in their front office, so they had pretty much everything we look for in an organization."

Baseball America