On August 14, 1999, fans of the Rockies and Expos didn’t get a pennant race, but they got plenty of fireworks.
I never saw anything like that in all my years of baseball. It was like they were putting them in air guns — those ping pong balls — and shooting them in the air. Gone.
Denver’s thin air lived up to its reputation as the Expos and Rockies combined for 10 home runs in a single game. For only the third time in MLB history, four players each went deep twice — Edgard Clemente, Todd Helton, and Dante Bichette for Colorado, and Geoff Blum for Montreal. Neither team was anywhere near first place — a combined 38½ games back — but the fans still got a show worth remembering.
From the archives:
“Coors Field Turns into Muscle Beach” — Denver sportswriter recap of the game