2014 Ownership Change and Rebuild

Lore & Background

The Rockies began as an expansion team for the 1993 season and played their home games for their first two seasons at Mile High Stadium. Since 1995, they have played at Coors Field, which has earned a reputation as a hitter's park. The Rockies have qualified for the postseason five times, each time as a Wild Card winner. In 2007, the team earned its only NL pennant after winning 14 of their final 15 regular season games to secure a Wild Card position, culminating in a 13-inning 9–8 victory against the San Diego Padres in the tiebreaker game known as 'Game 163'.

The Rockies then swept the Philadelphia Phillies and Arizona Diamondbacks in the NLDS and NLCS and entered the 2007 World Series as winners of 21 of their last 22 games, but were swept by the Boston Red Sox in four games. At the end of 2025, the Rockies have an all-time record of . This winning percentage is the worst among active MLB franchises. After the Denver Nuggets won the 2023 NBA Finals, the Rockies became the only one of Denver's franchises in the major North American professional sports leagues yet to win a championship.

They are also one of only two MLB teams to have never won a division title, alongside their 1993 expansion counterparts, the Miami Marlins.

Reader's Guide

The Rockies have played their home games at Coors Field since 1995. Their spring training home, Salt River Fields at Talking Stick in Scottsdale, Arizona, opened in March 2011 and is shared with the Arizona Diamondbacks. The team's colors include purple, inspired by the line 'For purple mountain majesties' in 'America the Beautiful'. The official purple was established as PMS 2685 beginning with the 2017 season. The home uniform is white with purple pinstripes, the first in Major League history to wear purple pinstripes. The road uniform is grey with purple piping, with various changes over the years. The Rockies originally wore an alternate black uniform during their inaugural 1993 season, but for only a few games.

Did You Know?

• The Rockies set the all-time Major League record for attendance in 1993, drawing 4,483,350 fans, still the MLB record.
• The Rockies were MLB's first team based in the Mountain Time Zone.
• In 2025, the Rockies set the record for the worst team record through 50 games (8–42) and the worst modern-era run differential (-424).
• The 2025 Rockies finished tied with the 2003 Detroit Tigers for the third most losses in baseball history since 1901.