Article: From a rocky past to the World Series.(COTE'S COLORADO)

The night before the Rockies clinched a spot in the World Series, a bar patron looked up at a TV screen and pondered aloud what had been on the minds of newly minted baseball fans across Colorado for more than a month.

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"Where did this team come from?"

Catcher Yorvit Torrealba had just hit a three-run homer at a cold, rain-sodden Coors Field to break a tie with the Arizona Diamondbacks to put the Colorado Rockies up 4-1, clinching the team's third straight win in the National League pennant series.

You already know what happened the following evening: pandemonium.

Forgive those of us who joined the ...

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