What an unexpected, wild "Rocktober" we've had this year! Our beloved Colorado Rockies baseball team has unexpectedly made it into the playoffs and has been the hottest team in all of baseball for the last six weeks. As of today's writing (October 15th), they have won 20 of their last 21 games. At the beginning of September, their playoff chances were pretty slim - but they defied all the odds and went 20-8 in September, to end the season with a tie for the Wild Card with the San Diego Padres. Therefore, on October 1st, there was a one game playoff between us and the Padres to determine who the Wild Card would go to.
Believe it or not, we managed to get tickets to that amazing game! After we heard about the game, Matt got online and kept hitting "refresh" for nearly 30 minutes to get into their site - and once he did, we were lucky enough to get incredibly cheap tickets to this game.
The tie-breaker was the most exhilarating, breathtaking, overwhelming thing we've experienced in our young lives thus far. I have never experienced anything like it. The game was, of course, sold out and we were on our feet nearly the entire game - all 13 innings of it! The Rockies came back to score three runs in the 13th inning to WIN the game! Yay!
At the Wild Card tie-breaker game on October 1st
That win put us into the NLDS (National League Division Series) against the Philadelphia Phillies, a best out of five series. We swept them, first winning both in Philadelphia then coming home and winning the final game at Coors Field.We were also privileged enough to get tickets to this last game as well! This game was also a blast to be at. Everyone was wearing Rockies gear, a lot of people brought brooms they would wave in the air, many people had signs for "MVP" for Matt Holliday, and "Rookie of the Year" for Troy Tulowitzki. Our great friends Nathan and Michelle joined us for a night to remember!
Nathan, Michelle and us at the Light Rail Station after our awesome win! And unbelievably, the Rockies are now playing The Arizona Diamondbacks in the NLCS (National League Championship Series) for a best out of seven series - and we are already up 3-0! One more win and we go to the World Series for the first time ever! They play tonight and we are hoping to clinch it here at Coors Field.
One really wild thing that happened at the NLDS was that all the lights in Coors Field went out! Evidently, the computer that controls the lights shorted out. It only took about 15 minutes for the ballgame to resume - but it was pretty crazy being a dark stadium with 50,000 other people. Here's a cool picture of it.
Lights out! Oops!
GO ROCKIES!!!!!!!!!!!
