Article: Game full of sound and fury Faith and a whole lot of whooping at Coors Field.(News)

Byline: Kevin Vaughan, Rocky Mountain News

Coors Field. Section 401, Row 29, Seats 16 and 17. Nine:fifty- eight p.m.

Top of the 13th inning in a do-or-die game. San Diego Padres 8, Colorado Rockies 6.

Tracey Vessels sat glumly, her voice screamed hoarse, her hope in tatters, her Rockies on the verge of packing off and heading into the off-season. Again.

A foot away, her 15-year-old son, Max, sat quietly chewing on the string from his sweatshirt, his head in his hands.

They'd been there 5 1/2 hours. They'd ridden the roller coaster as the Rockies fought to play another day.

It had been that way for more than two ...

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