ROCKIES WIN!!!!!

OMG! The Rockies have won the Tour de France! In case you missed it, the Rockies' win of the NL wild card in a tiebreaker game Monday against San Diego was just as wild and storybook as their ride to get to the tiebreaker game. The Rockies led 3-0 before the Padres scored 5 in the third inning. The game went to 13 innings tied 6-6 before San Diego had a two-run homer off Jorge Julio, who was booed heavily when he was finally pulled. It was the top of the order for the Rockies in the bottom of the 13th, and every single batter either got on base or advanced a runner. Kaz Matsui and Troy Tulowitzki doubled, MVP candidate Matt Holliday hit a triple (that at first looked like it might be a homer but it bounced off the right field scoreboard), and the Padres walked Todd Helton. Then Jamey Carroll was out on a fly to right, but Holliday tagged and slid home face first. It looked sooo close (we'll have to check replays to see if Holliday's hand really touched the plate), and then the ball dribbled out from the catcher. The ump finally signaled he was safe, and the Rockies poured out from the dugout. (Kinda makes up for a miffed call on a Rockies homer that was ruled a double for "bouncing off the yellow railing" when in fact replays showed it hit a chair or something behind the yellow before it bounced back onto the field, so it should've been a homer). Holliday looked like he was hurt, but he was walking around afterward and even jumped on Helton. He did have blood on his chin though. Afterward the pilots from Buckley Air Force Base who did the flyover before the game, during the national anthem, were giving high fives to fans on their way out of 20th and Blake. Anyways, relive the bottom half of the 13th with video on the Rockies Web site.