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The Colorado Rockies are in the navel of what seems apt be their annual September march to the playoffs.
Once anew, the national media is rotating its attention towards the group namely melodramas at Coors Field. The team that has been phenomenal at home and fewer than impressive on the road is suddenly on bombard. On August 22, the Rockies were 11 games out of 1st area and eyeing the Wild Card as the merely course to obtain into the postseason. Even the Wild Card was a long shot at that point. The Rockies were equitable 4.5 games backward yet had 4 teams that they would have to bound in mandate to overtake the Phillies, who were leading at the time. After all wish seemed lost on September 2nd, while the Rockies gave up nine runs in the seventh inning to allow the Phillies to obtain a decisive composition game 12-11 at Coors Field. Just as the local media (myself contained) wrote the club's obituary, the Rockies showed why they tin never be counted out. After struggling on the road entire season long, the Rockies worked into San Diego and swept the premier place Padres, who were at the tail end of a free fall. The Rockies didn't stop there, they returned home and swept the premier place Reds and the Diamondbacks to stretch their winning streak to 10 games. Suddenly, the Rockies were right in the thick of entities another, looking to make already variant September sprint as the playoffs. The flee, however, will only be a agreeable month whether the Rockies cannot surmount the 1.5 game shortage and arrest their first ever National League West title. With work to be done, the Rockies head into Arizona because three games and then they face the Giants in a 3 game set. With all due esteem to the Diamondbacks, the Rockies season hinges on the three game set with the Giants. The Rockies have had success even now with the Giants at Coors Field in 2010, going 4-2 in their 6 matchups by far. Winning those three games will no be easy. San Francisco is heading into the array with Tim Lincecum, Barry Zito, and Matt Cain on the mound. The Rockies will not counter with their best. Instead of going with Jimenez, Chacin, and Hammel, Colorado's circulation falls on Hammel, Jorge De La Rosa, and Jeff Francis in the finale. The Rockies, at all times they can take care of affair in the abandon, will be looking to the weekend to make their migrate. If they can find a way to win the sequence, they will be in a good position to win their first ever National League West crown. If they lose that series, they may not have ample games left to make up the ground.
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