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Article: DON'T BLAME COORS FIELD FOR THIS BULLPEN BLOWUP.(Sports)(Column)

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April 13, 1999
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Byline: Mike Littwin Denver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer

If you look only at the score, and maybe one highlight, you're going to be wrong on this one.

Just working from memory, you're going to put it down to Coors Field. And you're going to hope Jim Leyland (5-19 lifetime managing at Coors) doesn't take it personally.

Well, I've got news.

I don't know if the credit goes to the manager or to the musical stylings of Pedro Astacio, but Coors Field played very much like a regulation baseball park Monday. And that turns out to be the scariest part of the entire affair.

This once, Coors Field didn't beat Leyland, or crush his ...

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