Rockies Make Coors Field History

What’s more American than baseball on the Fourth of July? Making franchise history, that’s what.

It started like any other normal Major League Baseball game, but in the eighth inning we knew that we were in for a treat when Andres Torres hit an in-the-park home run for the Giants to add to a scoring run that would tie the game. When was the last time you saw one of those outside of Little League? (The last time an in-the-park homer was part of back to back home runs for the Giants was on June 1, 1966, when Willie Mays did it in Atlanta. Ironically the Giants lost that game 3-4, also.)

Also at the top of the eighth inning a tornado watch was issued just to make it a little more interesting. By the 12th inning the rain and lightning was so bad that everyone (that was left) on the upper deck was sent below to watch the final innings from the concourse.

In the bottom of the 15th inning, Dexter Fowler hit a triple and both Jonathan Herrera and Carlos Gonzalez were intentionally walked to fill the bases for Todd Helton. Dex scored on a sacrifice fly by Helton to end the game with a final score of 4-3.

At 5 hours and 24 minutes, and 15 innings the Headless Family attended the longest game in Rockies history. We almost got a 2-for-1 for our tickets.

Kendra is still tired from this game.

Photos by Headless Mom of The Adventures of the Headless Family

Source and being there.