The Colorado Rockies are a Major League Baseball team established in 1993 in Denver, Colorado and they play in the West Division of the National League. They play their home games at Coors Field in downtown Denver and their name is from the Rocky Mountains. The teams uniform colors ar black, purple, silver, and white, the logo is purple mountain with baseball and the teams mascot is Dinger, a purple anthropomorphized triceratops. The Rockies owners are Charlie Monfort and Dick Monfort and the menager is Clint Hurdle.
Hi Corbett Field, Tucson, AZ is the teams spring training facility. On April 17, 1994 for the first time in franchise history that the club had a winning record beating Montreal with 6-5. As they played their Opening Day game against the defending National League champion San Diego Padres, the Rockies beat San Diego, 8-2, in front of a crowd of 27,104 people on April 4, 1999. The Rockies were 44-43 in the first half of the 2006 season and were in contention in the NL West for much of the season, but faded in the second half and finished in fourth place in the division. In 2007 the team won their last 14 of 15 games, 11 in a row, and their 90-73 regular season mark set a franchise record. After few offseason changes, they began the 2008 season beating the San Diego Padres, 2-1, in a 22-inning road game that was the longest game in Rockies history.