Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
October 27, 2007
Down 0-2? No Problem!

The Rockies are not bothered by their 0-2 hole:

This is, after all, a team that had to win 14 of its final 15 regular-season games to get to the postseason, and managed to do just that, the strongest late-season surge in major league history. In the process, they jumped ahead of the Dodgers, Mets and Padres to claim the National League wild card.

They had to rally for a 9-8, 13-inning victory against the Padres by scoring three runs off Trevor Hoffman to win the National League wild-card tiebreaker.

They are only the seventh team to have rallied from being as many as nine games below .500 (18-27 in late May) to get to the World Series.

"We've had some challenges before during the season," Hurdle said. "This is the last challenge. But our focus is on Game 3. We need to win a ballgame, but a sense of urgency hasn't hurt this club. We've been outplayed the first two games and we understand that."

Just another hurdle for Hurdle to hurdle.


Posted by David Pinto at 11:31 AM | World Series | TrackBack (0)
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