I\u2019m in the beginning sta\u00adges of a sports project.<\/p>\n
Well, another sports pro\u00adject.<\/p>\n
Because I was a little kid that didn\u2019t want to cheer for a New England Patri\u00adots team that didn\u2019t win as much as I needed them to, I became a rabid Dal\u00adlas Cowboys fan (insert joke about the last time the Cowboys won a Super Bowl being before cars were invented).<\/p>\n
Upon further review, the Patriots weren\u2019t all that bad when I was growing up, and the Cowboys weren\u2019t that much better.<\/p>\n
Dallas only made the playoffs once between 1984 and 1990.<\/p>\n
Eventually, Dallas had its glory years with Super Bowls in 1992, 1993 and 1995.<\/p>\n
Then I was officially hook\u00aded.<\/p>\n
My goal?<\/p>\n
Once the new stadium opened in 2009, I decided that I\u2019d like to see the Cow\u00adboys play every team in the NFL at AT&T Stadium.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s moving along nicely.<\/p>\n
After seeing two games in the home of America\u2019s team last season, I\u2019ve now seen 23 of 31 opponents play in Texas.<\/p>\n
That got me to start thinking about a new goal \u2014 seeing the Red Sox play in every opposing stadium.<\/p>\n
The baseball landscape changes quickly.<\/p>\n
The Yankees and Tigers and Braves and a bunch of other teams don\u2019t play in the stadiums they play\u00aded in when I was a kid, but the new parks are incredible.<\/p>\n
In 2024, trip No. 1 was a loss to the Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n
Last year, it was the West Coast trip and Boston went 2-1 as the Sox beat the San Francisco Giants (it was Rafael Devers\u2019 first game as a Giant against his old team) and Seattle Mariners before losing to the Anaheim Angels.<\/p>\n
This year, the trip was to Coors Field in Denver to see the Sox play the Colo\u00adrado Rockies.<\/p>\n
If anything, it was a good chance to see a win.<\/p>\n
We did the stadium tour before the game and learn\u00aded lots of cool stuff about the Rockies.<\/p>\n
The stadium was built in 1993 and debuted in 1995 and is the third-oldest Na\u00adtional League park in base\u00adball.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a great field.<\/p>\n
The fans really come out for the games even though the Rockies stink.<\/p>\n
The tour guide also ex\u00adplained that since the team was about $30 million short of its goal to build the stadium back in the 1990s, it took $30 million from Coors, $15 million for the stadium and $15 million for the naming rights to the park.<\/p>\n
Most parks get money every year from the stadium sponsor.<\/p>\n
It seems Colorado\u2019s park will forever be Coors Field after a one-time payment.<\/p>\n
Once the game started on June 23, it was Jake Ben\u00adnett for the Red Sox against Rockies starter Ryan Feltner, who the Sox quickly made look more like Nolan Ryan.<\/p>\n
The game was scoreless through five innings, some\u00adthing that doesn\u2019t happen much in Colorado, before Boston scored twice in the top of the sixth.<\/p>\n
Willson Contreras and Caleb Durbin had the RBIs for the Sox.<\/p>\n
The Rockies could have and should have tied the game in the eighth inning, but two costly baserunning errors after hits re\u00adsulted in one out at home plate and another on the bases.<\/p>\n
The boo-boos were so bad that many Rockies fans left the game after the eighth inning, shaking their head with a \u201cthat\u2019s how we roll\u201d kind of smile.<\/p>\n
No hard feelings, but they seemed aware of how the game was going to end up.<\/p>\n
After back-to-back hits in the bottom of the ninth, we decided it was a good time to vacate the premises as well.<\/p>\n
Then, this happened.<\/p>\n
The Rockies won, 3-2.<\/p>\n
Another hit off closer Ar\u00adoldis Chapman loaded the bases and then the game ended with a three-run triple to the left-field corner by Jake McCarthy.<\/p>\n
For some reason, the sting of the collapse was easier to deal with walking toward the parking lot as fans screamed with de\u00adlight.<\/p>\n
But in all reality, it was a brutal loss.<\/p>\n
Chapman had not blown a save all year.<\/p>\n
The Rockies ended up recording eight consecutive hits spanning the eighth and ninth innings, making them the first team since at least 1961 to achieve this in their final eight plate appearances.<\/p>\n
At least we only had to listen to it.<\/p>\n
This Red Sox project is going to be a blast.<\/p>\n
There likely won\u2019t be many losses as painful as this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m in the beginning sta\u00adges of a sports project. Well, another sports pro\u00adject. Because I was a little…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[10105,1113,38646,5,2313,48,192,3615,50,52,1009,12069,1040,49841,3917,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,17253,1082,863,89,1945,66,65,1428,92864,21048,594,18285,50975,409,18284,142],"class_list":["post-749027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-anaheim-angels","tag-aroldis-chapman","tag-att-stadium","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-braves","tag-caleb-durbin","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-coors-field","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-denver","tag-jake-bennett","tag-jake-mccarthy","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-rafael-devers","tag-red-sox","tag-ryan-feltner","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-stadium","tag-super-bowls","tag-tewksbury","tag-tigers","tag-town-crier","tag-west-coast","tag-willson-contreras","tag-wilmington","tag-yankees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}