Season stories, legends, venues and owners from Rockies history.
Regular-season stats. Batting average leaders are qualified hitters. The 1994 season ended in August because of the players' strike, 1995 was shortened to 144 games, and 2020 was a 60-game season. Games back are in the NL West. Sources: 2026 Colorado Rockies Media Guide, cross-checked with MLB.com stats (which corrected two guide entries); 2026 from Baseball-Reference and MLB.com.
Game · Colorado Rockies
The first home game in franchise history, with Eric Young's leadoff homer and a record crowd.
Play · MLB
Dante Bichette's 14th-inning walk-off homer in the first game at Coors Field.
Game · Colorado Rockies
The Blake Street Bombers clinch the NL's first Wild Card in the franchise's third season.
Play · Colorado Rockies
The most debated slide in franchise history ends Game 163 and sends Colorado to the postseason.
Montage · Colorado Rockies
The sweep of Arizona that capped 21 wins in 22 games and sent the Rockies to the World Series.
Play · Colorado Rockies
Ubaldo Jiménez throws the first no-hitter in franchise history.
Game · Colorado Rockies
A bloodied Nolan Arenado finishes the cycle with a walk-off homer on Father's Day.
Game · MLB
Tony Wolters' 13th-inning single wins the Rockies' first playoff game since 2007.
Speech · Colorado Rockies
The 1997 NL MVP becomes the first Hall of Famer in a Rockies cap.
Speech · National Baseball Hall of Fame
The franchise's greatest player, a Rockie for 17 seasons, takes his place in Cooperstown.
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1B · 1993–97
"The Big Cat" won the NL batting title in the Rockies' first season (.370) and led the NL with 47 homers and 150 RBI in 1996.
OF · 1993–99
Led the NL with 40 homers and 128 RBI in 1995, the Rockies' first playoff season.
3B · 1993–99, 2004
Blake Street Bomber who hit 46 homers with 144 RBI in 1998, then led the NL in RBI on his 2004 return.
RF · 1995–2004
1997 NL MVP and three-time batting champion in Colorado, including .379 in 1999.
1B · 1997–2013
Spent his entire 17-year career in Colorado and is the franchise leader in games, runs, hits, doubles, homers, RBI and walks. The first Rocky with a retired number.
LF · 2004–08, 2018
Won the 2007 NL batting and RBI titles, scored the Game 163 winner, and was MVP of the 2007 NLCS.
SS · 2006–15
Five-time All-Star and two-time Gold Glove shortstop who helped lead the 2007 World Series team as a rookie.
SP · 2006–11
Threw the franchise's only no-hitter (April 17, 2010) and went 19-8 with a 2.88 ERA that season.
OF · 2009–18
Won the 2010 NL batting title (.336) and three Gold Gloves.
OF · 2011–24
Spent his whole career in Colorado. Won the 2017 NL batting title with 213 hits.
3B · 2013–20
Won a Gold Glove in each of his eight Rockies seasons and led the NL in homers three times.
SP · 2017–present
A Denver native. Went 17-7 with a 2.85 ERA in 2018, the best qualified ERA in franchise history.
C · 2023–present
Hit 31 homers in 2025 and 41 in 2026.
Placed by each player's first season with the Rockies. Stats are with Colorado. Sources: 2026 Colorado Rockies Media Guide (retired numbers, year-by-year leaders) and the Season Stories data.
Strike-shortened 1994 and 1995 and the 60-game 2020 season are included as played. Game 163 tiebreakers count as regular season. ★ championship season
The expansion Rockies drew 80,227 to their first home game at Mile High Stadium on April 9, 1993, and Eric Young homered in the first inning of an 11-4 win. Colorado drew 4,483,350 fans that season, still MLB's single-season attendance record.
Source: sabr.org
Workers digging for Coors Field found real dinosaur fossils, including a small rib now at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. The team ran with it: on April 16, 1994, a giant egg hatched at Mile High Stadium and out came Dinger, a purple triceratops.
Source: cpr.org
The first game at Coors Field, on a cold April 26, 1995, went 14 innings before Dante Bichette's three-run walk-off homer beat the Mets 11-9. That season four Rockies hit 30-plus homers and became the 'Blake Street Bombers.'
Source: baseballhall.org
Every seat at Coors Field is green except one row: the 20th row of the upper deck is purple, marking exactly one mile (5,280 feet) above sea level.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
At the 1997 All-Star Game, Randy Johnson sailed a pitch over Larry Walker's head. Walker, a lefty, turned his helmet around backwards and stepped into the right-handed batter's box for a pitch as the crowd and both dugouts cracked up.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
To tame Coors Field's home runs, the Rockies began storing game balls in a humidor at about 70 degrees and 50 percent humidity in 2002. Damper balls came off the bat with less bounce, and homers at Coors dropped.
Source: visitdenver.com
Rookie shortstop Clint Barmes was among the NL's top rookies when he broke his collarbone in June 2005. He first blamed a fall while carrying groceries, then admitted he'd slipped on the stairs carrying deer meat from teammate Todd Helton.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
The Rockies won 21 of 22 games on the way to the World Series, including a 13-inning tiebreaker against San Diego. Matt Holliday scored the winner on a headfirst slide and was called safe, though replays suggest he may never have touched the plate.
Source: mlb.com
On April 17, 2008, the Rockies beat the Padres 2-1 in 22 innings. It took 6 hours and 16 minutes and 659 pitches from 15 pitchers, still the longest game in Rockies history.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Snow postponed a Mets-Rockies game at Coors Field on April 15, 2013, and the next day Mets general manager Sandy Alderson helped the grounds crew shovel the field. A week later the Rockies and Braves played at 23°F, the coldest game MLB has on record.
Source: mlb.com
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Opened April 26, 1995 with an 11-9 win over the Mets in 14 innings. A row of purple seats in the upper deck (row 20) marks exactly one mile above sea level. It hosted the 1998 and 2021 All-Star Games and the 2007 World Series.
Shared with the Broncos while Coors Field was built. A Major League-record crowd of 80,227 saw the first home game, an 11-4 win over Montreal on April 9, 1993, and the Rockies drew an MLB-record 4,483,350 fans that season.
MLB Mexico City Series vs. Houston (two losses).
Sources: 2026 Colorado Rockies Media Guide (Coors Field facts, Mile High attendance, records by ballpark).
Principal owners; Dick Monfort has been chairman and CEO since 2011
Charlie Monfort was an original partner in 1992 and his brother Dick joined in 1997. They took over from Jerry McMorris in the early 2000s. Their era includes the franchise's only World Series trip in 2007 and playoff runs in 2009, 2017 and 2018, followed by a long slide.
“It has now been four years since our last postseason appearance, and this is not acceptable.”
Charlie Monfort took over as chairman and CEO in the early 2000s; the brothers gained full control of the general partnership in December 2005.
Chairman and CEO of the ownership group; team president 1993-2001
When the original lead owners were forced out before the first pitch, trucking executive Jerry McMorris helped rescue the franchise and kept it in Denver. His Rockies set MLB attendance records, opened Coors Field and made the playoffs in their third season.
Honors: Colorado Sports Hall of Fame (2009)
“I believe it is fair to say without the efforts of Jerry, there may have never been Major League Baseball in Denver”
“Jerry quickly established himself as a leader within our industry,”
Original franchise owners
Owned the franchise before its first game.
An Ohio-based group won the expansion franchise in 1991 with local partners including Coors, KOA Radio and Linda Alvarado. A business scandal at Monus's company forced both lead partners out in 1992, before the team ever played a game.
Records are regular-season results for the seasons credited to each owner (whoever owned the team for most of a season gets it). Sources: team histories, AP/UPI, Denver Post, SABR, Sports-Reference and Wikipedia; each quote links to where it was published.