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 Coors Field in 2015 | |
| Address | 2001 Blake Street |
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| Location | Denver,Colorado, United States |
| Coordinates | 39°45′22″N104°59′39″W / 39.75611°N 104.99417°W /39.75611; -104.99417 |
| Public transit | RTD:        atDenver Union Station |
| Operator | Colorado Rockies Baseball Club Ltd.[1] |
| Capacity | 46,897 (50,144 with standing room) (2018–present)[2] 50,398 (2012–2017)[3] 50,490 (2011) 50,445 (2001–2010) 50,381 (1999–2000) 50,200 (1995–1998) |
| Record attendance | 51,267 (1998 MLB All-Star Game) |
| Field size | Left Field – 347 feet (106 m) Left-Center – 390 feet (119 m) Center Field – 415 feet (126 m) Right-Center – 375 feet (114 m) Right Field – 350 feet (107 m) Backstop – 56 feet (17 m)  |
| Surface | Kentucky Bluegrass/Perennial Ryegrass |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | October 16, 1992 (1992-10-16) |
| Opened | April 26, 1995 (1995-04-26) |
| Construction cost | US$300 million ($619 million in 2024 dollars[4]) |
| Architect | HOK Sport (nowPopulous) |
| Project manager | CMTS, Inc.[5] |
| Structural engineer | Martin/Martin, Inc.[6] |
| Services engineer | M-E Engineers, Inc.[7] |
| General contractor | Mortenson/Barton Malow[6] |
| Main contractors | LPR Construction[8] Havens Steel[6] Zimmerman Metals[6] Zimkor Industries[6] LPR Erectors[6] |
| Tenants | |
| Colorado Rockies (MLB) (1995–present) | |
| Website | |
| mlb.com/rockies/ballpark | |
Coors Field is abaseballstadium in downtownDenver, Colorado, United States. It is theballpark ofMajor League Baseball'sColorado Rockies. Opened in1995, the park is located in Denver'sLower Downtown neighborhood, two blocks fromUnion Station. The stadium has a capacity of 50,144 people for baseball.
As anexpansion team that began play in 1993, the Rockies spent their first two seasons atMile High Stadium. During that time, Coors Field was constructed for a cost of $300 million. It includes 63 luxury suites and 4,526 club seats. Coors Field has earned a reputation as ahitter's park, due to the effect of Denver's highelevation andsemi-arid climate on the distances of batted balls. To counter this, theoutfield fences have been moved away fromhome plate, and baseballs used in the park are stored in ahumidor.
Coors Field has hosted the1998 MLB All-Star Game and the2021 MLB All-Star Game. Coors has also hosted an outdoor hockey game from the2016 NHL Stadium Series, along with numerous concerts.
In 2017, a consultant determined that Coors Field would require $200 million in capital improvements in the 2020s. To fund those improvements, the Rockies agreed to a long-term lease to develop club-owned nearby land.[9]
Coors Field was the first newstadium added in a six-year period in which Denver's sports venues were upgraded, along withBall Arena (originally Pepsi Center) andEmpower Field at Mile High (originally Invesco Field). It was also the first baseball-only park in the National League sinceDodger Stadium was built in1962.
As with the other new venues, Coors Field was constructed with transportation access in mind. It sits nearInterstate 25 and has direct access to the 20th Street and Park Avenue exits. Nearby Union Station also provides light rail and commuter rail access, as well as local and regional bus lines.
Coors Field was originally planned to be somewhat smaller, seating only 43,800. However, after the Rockies drew almost 4.5 million people in their first season atMile High Stadium – the most in baseball history – the plans were altered during construction, and new seats in the right field upper deck were added.
The center field bleacher section is named "The Rockpile". During the 1993 and 1994 seasons when the team played atMile High Stadium, which was a hybrid football/baseball venue, the Rockpile was located next to the south stands, which were in dead center field and very distant from home plate. The same design was incorporated into Coors Field, and is located in deep center field up high. The original Rockpile seats cost a dollar each.
During construction, workers discovered a number of dinosaur fossils throughout the grounds. Rumors circulated that these fossils included a 7-foot-long (2.1 m) 1,000-pound (450 kg)triceratops skull. In reality, the fossil fragments discovered were quite small, and are now housed at the Museum of Science and Nature. Because of these discoveries, "Jurassic Park" was one of the first names to be considered for the stadium. This later led to the selection of a triceratops as the Rockies' mascot, Dinger.[10]
In 1991,Coors Brewing purchasednaming rights "in perpetuity" to the stadium as part of their $30 million investment in the Rockies.[11] A 2017 lease agreement that Rockies club ownership signed with the stadium district ensured that the name would remain at least through 2047.[12]
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While most of the seats in Coors Field are dark green, the seats in the 20th row of the upper deck are purple to mark theelevation of onemile (5280 ft; 1,609 m) abovesea level.[13]
TheBlue Moon Brewery at The Sandlot is amicrobrewery/restaurant that is behind the right-field stands, with an entrance from Coors Field, and from Blake Street. The brewery is operated by theCoors Brewing Company, and experiments with craft beers on a small scale. The Brewery has won multiple awards at theGreat American Beer Festival in various categories. The popularBlue Moon, a Belgian-Style Wheat beer was invented here, and is now mass-produced by Coors. The restaurant is housed in a building that is attached to the stadium. Coors Field has an extensive selection of food items. Selections include Rockie dogs, Denver dogs, vegetarian dogs and burgers, and all of the usual ball park items.[14]
Behind the center field wall is a landscape decoration that reflects the typical environment of theRocky Mountains. This landscape area consists of a waterfall, fountains, and pine trees. After a Rockies home run or win, the fountains shoot high into the air.
The park has two largelight emitting diode (LED) video displays and one ribbon display in the outfield fromDaktronics. The top display, underneath the "Rockies" logo, measures 27 by 47 feet (8 m × 14 m). The second display measure 33 by 73 feet (10 m × 22 m) and is used to give lineups and statistics and as a scoreboard. The field also contains several Daktronics ribbon displays, totaling approximately 833 feet (254 m) in length.[15]
After the close of the 2013 season, renovations began on the right field portion of the upper deck, converted into an outdoor party deck called "The Rooftop" for 2014.[16]
Coors Field is also home to a section of seats called "The Rockpile". The very last section of seats are 600 feet away from home plate, making them the furthest away from home plate in any MLB stadium.[17]
At 5,200 feet (1,580 m) above sea level, Coors Field is by far the highest park in the majors.[18][19] The next-highest,Chase Field inPhoenix, stands at 1,100 feet (340 m). Designers knew that the stadium would give up a lot of home runs, as the lower air density at such a highelevation would result in balls traveling farther than in other parks. To compensate for this, the outfield fences were placed at an unusually far distance from home plate, thus creating the largest outfield in Major League Baseball.[20] In spite of the pushed-back fences, for many years Coors Field not only gave up the most home runs in baseball, but due to the resultant large field area, the mostdoubles andtriples as well.[21]
In its first decade, the above-average number of home runs earned Coors Field a reputation as the most hitter-friendly park in Major League Baseball, earning the critical nicknames "Coors Canaveral"[22] (a reference toCape Canaveral, from whereNASA launches spacecraft) and "Williamsport" (referring to the site of theLittle League World Series, which has been traditionally dominated by batters). Prior to the 2002 baseball season, studies determined thatdry air rather thanthin air had a greater contribution to the increased frequency of home runs.[23] It was found that baseballs stored in damper air are softer and therefore lesselastic to the impact of the bat.[A] To address this problem, a secure room-sizedhumidor was installed to have a damper place to store the baseballs prior to games. Since its introduction, the number of home runs at Coors Field has decreased and is now nearly the same as other parks.[24]
Regardless of ball humidity, elevation is still a factor in games at Coors Field. The ball does slip more easily through the thin air allowing for longer hits. In addition, thecurveball tends to curve less with the thin air than at sea level leading to fewer strikeouts and fewer effective pitches for pitchers to work with.[25]
Coors Field twice broke the major league record for home runs hit in a ballpark in one season. The previous record, 248, had been set at theAngels' original home ofWrigley Field in Los Angeles in 1961, its only year for major league ball. In Coors Field's first year, the home run total fell just 7 short of that mark, despite losing 9 games from the home schedule (or 1/9 of the normal 81) due to the strike that had continued from 1994. The next season, 1996, with a full schedule finally, 271 home runs were hit at Coors Field. In 1999, the current major league record was set at 303. The annual home run figure dropped noticeably in 2002, and has dropped below 200 starting in 2005.[26]
Although the number of home runs hit per season at Coors Field is decreasing, Coors Field still remains the most hitter friendly ballpark in the Major Leagues by a wide margin. From 2012 to 2015, the Colorado Rockies led the league in runs scored in home games, while being last in the league for runs scored in away games. This demonstrates the extreme benefit that Coors Field's low air density provides to hitters.[27]
One concern for the Rockies has been poor adjustment when playing road games at lower altitudes. The Rockies score an average of just 3.9 runs per road game, the lowest among all teams. This has had a detrimental effect on Colorado's all-time road record, which sits at 888–1352, or 39.6%, the worst in the majors.
Rockies pitchers are more likely to finish with an ERA of at least 4, if not higher, and onlyUbaldo Jiménez andJhoulys Chacín maintained sub-4 ERAs during their Rockies tenure (3.66 and 3.84 respectively).
In order to combat the concerns of a home run friendly ballpark and to attractfree agent pitchers, the Rockies raised two portions of the outfield fences prior to the 2016 season. The sections of fence that were raised were specifically chosen to not interfere with the view of the field from thegrandstand. From right field to center field in front of the bullpens the fence was raised 8 feet 9 inches to a height of 16 feet 6 inches, consistent with the height of the out of town scoreboard. In the left field corner the fence was raised five feet to a total height of thirteen feet from the foul pole to the pavilion seating section.[28][29]
Analysis after the 2016 season showed that the new fences had very little effect. One study showed that the new fences only came into play twenty times; one play changed what would have been a ground rule double into a triple. The number of home runs in the 2016 season was actually greater than the 2015 season. The new fences had the most effect on right handed batters.[30][31]
On September 17, 1996,Hideo Nomo of theLos Angeles Dodgers threw the first of his two careerno-hit games as the Dodgers won 9–0. Nomo's first no-hitter at Coors Field is of special note due to the park's overwhelming hitter-friendly reputation (before the usage of the humidors, even), it being the only one thrown there through the 2024 season, as well as Nomo pitching for the visiting team; while still a fairly new park at the time, the Rockies started out in the similarly elevatedMile High Stadium and would naturally be more accustomed to Coors Field's nuances such as the larger fielding area as it is their home field.
The1998 and2021 Major League Baseball All-Star Games took place in Coors Field.
In 2011, a man fell to his death when he was attempting to slide down a stair railing during the 7th inning of a Rockies–Diamondbacks game.[32]
On April 23, 2013, Rockies and Braves played in the coldest game sinceMLB began tracking game time temperature in 1991, at 23 °F (−5 °C).[33]
There have been eleven 1–0 games in Coors Field history, through April 6, 2023. The first 1–0 game at Coors Field was on July 9, 2005,[34][35] meaning all eleven games have occurred since Major League Baseball allowed the Rockies to start using ahumidor on May 15, 2002:[36]
Games 3 and 4 of the2007 World Series between the Rockies and theBoston Red Sox were held at Coors Field. The Red Sox swept both games to win the title.[48]
On August 7, 2016,Ichiro Suzuki collected his 3,000th MLB career hit: a seventh-inning triple that was off the right field wall off Rockies pitcherChris Rusin.[49]
Coors Field also hosted three outdoor ice hockey games in February 2016. First, on February 20, the localDenver Pioneers defeated theirarch-rivalColorado College 4–1[56] in acollege match billed as the "Battle on Blake".[57] Then, one week later on February 27, theColorado Avalanche lost to theDetroit Red Wings 5–3[56] as part of the2016 NHL Stadium Series.[58][59] The day before that also hosted the Alumni exhibition game where theColorado Avalanche alumni defeated theirDetroit Red Wings counterparts.
| Date | Winning Team | Result | Losing Team | Event | Spectators |
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| February 20, 2016 | Denver Pioneers | 4–1 | Colorado College Tigers | Battle for the Gold Pan | 35,144 |
| February 26, 2016 | Colorado Avalanche Alumni | 5–2 | Detroit Red Wings Alumni | NHL Alumni Game | 43,319[60] |
| February 27, 2016 | Detroit Red Wings | 5–3 | Colorado Avalanche | 2016 NHL Stadium Series | 50,095 |
As a part of their world tour, theSavannah Bananas played two games ofBanana Ball at Coors Field on August 9-10, 2025. Tickets were available via a lottery and sold out in less than two hours. The attendance of more than 50,000 fans was the highest of any MLB stadium in the Bananas history.[61] The August 9 game was televised byESPN.[62][63][64]
The Savannah Bananas will play two games against the Indianapolis Clowns at Coors Field on August 14 and 15, 2026. Tickets will again be available via a lottery.[65]
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Alan Roach was the main PA announcer since Coors Field opened in 1995. In the spring preceding the 2007 Rockies season, Roach announced his retirement from his post at Coors Field to spend more time over the summer with his family. He did come back to substitute in 2008. Roach is also the PA announcer for the nearbyColorado Avalanche hockey team of theNHL and former PA announcer for theDenver Broncos of theNFL. He also provides voice-overs for local sports introductions in the region, in addition to hosting a local sports talk radio show. He is currently the PA announcer for theMinnesota Vikings of theNFL. He is also one of the voices of thetrain system atDenver International Airport, and has also been heard as the PA announcer at recentSuper Bowls. Reed Saunders, 23, was chosen to be the new voice of Coors Field on March 16, 2007.
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Coors Field was featured in the movieThe Fan (1996) starringRobert De Niro andWesley Snipes.[66] The ballpark was also featured in two episodes ofSouth Park: "Professor Chaos" (2002) and "The Losing Edge" (2005).[67]
"Acclaim Sports Park", featured onAll-Star Baseball 2004 and2005, is a mirrored image of Coors Field.[68]
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| Statistic | Player(s)/Team |
| Score | Colorado 11,New York Mets 9 14 innings |
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| First National Anthem | Colorado Children's Chorale |
| FirstPitch | 5:38 p.m.,Bill Swift toBrett Butler |
| FirstPlate Appearance, FirstAt Bat, FirstSwing and FirstHit | Brett Butler, infield single, 1st inning |
| FirstBatter toGround Into Double Play | José Vizcaíno (Mets), turned 6–3,Walt Weiss toAndrés Galarraga |
| First Putout | Walt Weiss put out Brett Butler at second base (during the double play mentioned above) |
| FirstExtra-Base Hit and FirstRun Batted In | Larry Walker (Rockies) double in 1st inning |
| FirstRun | Walt Weiss (Rockies), 1st inning |
| First Flyout and FirstSacrifice Fly | Dante Bichette (Rockies), putout byDavid Segui, scoringJoe Girardi, 1st inning |
| First Strikeout | Bill Swift, struck out (called) David Segui, 2nd inning |
| First Sacrifice Bunt | Bobby Jones (Mets), 3rd inning |
| First Home Run | Rico Brogna (Mets), 4th inning off Swift |
| FirstBase On Balls | Bobby Jones (Mets) walked Bill Swift, 5th inning |
| FirstGrand Slam | Todd Hundley (Mets), 6th inning off Swift |
| First Pinch Hitter | John Vander Wal announced for Swift (did not appear),Eric Young pinched for Vander Wal, 6th inning |
| First Relief Pitcher | Jerry DiPoto (Mets), 6th inning |
| First Batter to beHit By Pitch | Roberto Mejía (Rockies) by DiPoto, 6th inning |
| First Right Field Outfield Assist | Carl Everett (Mets),Vinny Castilla at second base, 6th inning |
| First Wild Pitch | Mike Munoz (Rockies), facing Rico Brogna, 7th inning |
| FirstBlown Save | Mike Munoz (Rockies), 7th inning; the MetsJohn Franco andMike Remlinger recorded the second and third blown saves in the 9th and 14th inning of the same inaugural game |
| FirstPinch Runner | Brook Fordyce (Mets), 8th inning |
| First Foul Popfly | Andrés Galarraga (Rockies), fielded byJeff Kent |
| First Left Field OutfieldAssist | Dante Bichette (Rockies), José Vizcaíno at second base, 13th inning |
| Intentional Base On Balls | Todd Hundley (Mets), by pitcherMark Thompson |
| FirstPinch Base Hit | Jim Tatum (Rockies), 13th inning |
| FirstError | Tim Bogar (Mets), 14th inning |
| First Walk-off home run (and First Rockies Home Run) | Dante Bichette (Rockies), three-run home run, 14th inning |
| FirstWin | Mark Thompson (Rockies) |
| Statistic | Person(s) | Date |
|---|---|---|
| First Stolen Base | Eric Young and Walt Weiss (Rockies) double steal | April 27, 1995 |
| First Passed Ball | Joe Girardi (Rockies) | April 27, 1995 |
| FirstTriple | Andrés Galarraga (Rockies) | April 27, 1995 |
| First Baserunner Caught Stealing | Carl Everett (Mets), byA. J. Sager / Joe Girardi | April 27, 1995 |
| FirstSave | Bruce Ruffin (Rockies) | May 3, 1995 |
| First Back to Back Home Runs | Mike Kingery and Roberto Mejía (Rockies) | May 6, 1995 |
| First Center Field Outfield Assist | Raúl Mondesí (Los Angeles Dodgers), Larry Walker at second base | May 6, 1995 |
| First BaserunnerPicked Off Caught Stealing | Dante Bichette (Rockies) at third base, byTerry Mulholland (San Francisco Giants) | May 11, 1995 |
| First Baserunner Picked Off On Base | Brian Jordan (St. Louis Cardinals), by Mark Thompson at 1st base | June 6, 1995 |
| First Balk | Marvin Freeman (Rockies) | June 7, 1995 |
| FirstComplete Game and FirstShutout | Tom Glavine (Atlanta Braves) | June 16, 1995 |
| First Cycle | John Mabry (St. Louis Cardinals); 11thnatural cycle in MLB history | May 18, 1996 |
| First No-hitter | Hideo Nomo (Los Angeles Dodgers) | September 17, 1996 |
| First Unassisted Triple Play | Troy Tulowitzki (Rockies) | April 29, 2007[69][70][71] |
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| Preceded by | Home of the Colorado Rockies 1995 – present | Succeeded by Current |
| Preceded by | Host of the All-Star Game 1998 | Succeeded by |
