Garrett Atkins News

The Rockies' outfield is crowded with talent. The emergence of Carlos Gonzalez, Dexter Fowler and Seth Smith has made all-star Brad Hawpe expendable.

Rafael Betancourt turned down a two-year offer for about $7 million from the Rockies, who could decline his option and offer arbitration.

The Philadelphia Phillies will not offer a contract to Pedro Feliz, the team announced Sunday night.

The Colorado Rockies are getting that look again. Garrett Atkins and Jeff Baker homered and drove in three runs, Ubaldo Jimenez turned in another terrific start and the Rockies pounded the Cincinnati Reds 11-0 Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.

For Giants fans, Joe Morgan 's signature moment was his home run in the 1982 season finale to beat the Dodgers and cease their playoff hopes.

Executives say that many of the names being discussed by teams as possible trade bait include a growing number of players with three to five-plus years of service time -- players who are eligible for arbitration.

Mark McGwire, one of the game's most star-crossed sluggers, is back in baseball.

There should be no real big changes in the Colorado Rockies coming off a charge into the 2009 playoffs, the principal owners of the club said this week.

Philadelphia Phillies' Shane Victorino is safe at third, advancing on a single by Chase Utley, as Colorado Rockies' Garrett Atkins steps on the bag during Game 4 of the National League division series in Denver on Monday.

If the Rockies weren't so fixated on next year, they might still be playing Baseball this year.

Colorado Rockies' Todd Helton, right, is congratulated by teammate Clint Barmes after Helton scored on a hit by Garrett Atkins during the third inning of Game 3 in a National League baseball division series against the Philadelphia Phillies in Denver on Sunday, Oct.

Tickets: Rockies Notes: Torrealba struggles in five hole By Gerry Fraley For The Inquirer DENVER - Moving catcher Yorvit Torrealba into the fifth spot in Colorado's lineup backfired on manager Jim Tracy on Sunday.

The drama of a long, memorable Baseball season switched sides twice at the very end, as if to prove Yogi Berra's famous maxim.

Garrett Atkins had an RBI single in the first to go with a run-scoring double in the third.

Both teams changed pitchers again in the bottom of the sixth. Colorado pinch hit for Contreras with two outs and Ryan Spilborghs on first.

The Colorado Rockies pushed across two runs in the first inning of chilly Game 3 on Sunday night when Philadelphia rookie J.A. Happ labored through a 35-pitch inning and took a 3-1 lead over the Phillies after three.

Greetings from Coors Field, where an hour before first pitch the temperature is a balmy 35.1 degrees, according to WeatherBug.com's tracking station at the stadium.

Saturday's postponement of Game 3 of the National League Division Series gave Rockies manager Jim Tracy time to think.

A baseball season that has offered nothing but cruelty to Rockies third baseman Garrett Atkins is suddenly giving him a golden chance.

PHILADELPHIA Yorvit Torrealba hit a home run, and no one was more surprised than Yorvit Torrealba.