| Does Coors make that big of a difference? I don't know about now, but there's this: in 1999, the Rockies scored 334 runs in 81 road games. That's 4.12 runs per game, and a pace of 668 runs over 162 games. Had they scored 668 runs, they would have finished last in all of baseball. (Incidentally, they gave up 402 runs on the road - a pace of 804 runs for a full season. The league average was 823 runs.) At home, the Rockies scored 572 runs in 81 games. That is a pace for 1,144 runs. They gave up 626 runs at Coors, or a pace of 1,252. The modern MLB record is 1,067 by the 1931 Yankees who had a few guys you may have heard of, beginning with Ruth and Gehrig. So how big a deal was Coors field? On the road, the Rockies were the worst run-scoring team in the league. At home, they were the greatest run-scoring team in history. It helped a lot. |
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