{"id":21836,"date":"2024-12-21T03:34:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T09:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=21836"},"modified":"2024-09-04T08:49:58","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T14:49:58","slug":"ballpark-tour-rockies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/ballpark-tour-rockies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballpark Tour: Rockies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/rockies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9088\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/rockies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/rockies.jpg 446w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/rockies-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a>With the offseason underway, we continue our tour of all of the different baseball stadiums I\u2019ve been to over the years. This week, we head west to Denver for a look at the Colorado Rockies. So, without further ado, let\u2019s take a deeper look at my history with Coors Field.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/coorsfield.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19248\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/coorsfield.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/coorsfield.jpg 750w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/coorsfield-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/coorsfield-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stadium Name:<\/strong> Coors Field<\/p>\n<p><strong>Years in Service:<\/strong> 1995 \u2013 Present<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visits:<\/strong>\u00a02<\/p>\n<p>After spending their first two seasons at Mile High Stadium, the Rockies moved to their own ballpark, the first baseball-only park opened in the National League since Dodger Stadium in 1962.\u00a0 During construction of the park, numerous dinosaur fossils were found, eventually leading to the creation of the team&#8217;s mascot Dinger, a purple triceratops.\u00a0 Coors Field has hosted two All-Star Games, in 1998 and again in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>A quick trip to Denver in 2022 saw me taking in two games versus the White Sox.\u00a0 I arrived in town on a Tuesday afternoon, heading to the ballpark for a night game in the Rockies&#8217; club level.\u00a0 The White Sox managed to pull out a squeaker, winning 2-1.\u00a0 I returned to the ballpark the following afternoon, sitting on the first level down the third base line.\u00a0 Things did not go as well for the White Sox this day, as the Rockies managed to score late to take the game 6-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the offseason underway, we continue our tour of all of the different baseball stadiums I\u2019ve been to over the years. This week, we head west to Denver for a look at the Colorado Rockies. So, without further ado, let\u2019s take a deeper look at my history with Coors Field. Stadium Name: Coors Field Years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[5041,10156,11579,4644,11578,257,49],"class_list":["post-21836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-all-star-game","tag-coors-field","tag-dinger","tag-dodger-stadium","tag-mile-high-stadium","tag-rockies","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21895,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21836\/revisions\/21895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}