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Article: COORS FIELD'S REPUTATION DOESN'T SCARE ROCKIES BULLPEN.(Sports)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- August 11, 1998
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Byline: Tracy Ringolsby and Tony Jackson Rocky Mountain News Staff Writers
Coors Field is considered a graveyard for pitchers.
It's bashed from coast-to-coast for its unfair advantage to hitters.
It's ridiculed nationally for its distortion of statistics.
About the only people who seem oblivious to all the woes of pitching at Coors Field are the Colorado Rockies relievers.
``I think as a group we understand we are going to pitch here 30, 40 times a season, so we'd better figure it out,'' reliever Jerry Dipoto said.
And the numbers say the Rockies relievers have done that.