The Rockies have won the pennant, the Rockies have won the pennant . . .
By . . . well no they haven’t actually won anything yet of course, and indeed aren’t even in first place, but having eliminated all but two of the Dodgers’ 15-game lead over them they’re threatening to make one of the biggest comebacks, and precipitate one of the biggest collapses, in baseball history. (LA is still in good shape for the wild card but who knows what’ll happen if they get overtaken for the division lead after so many months of cruising?)
Anyway it’s too bad Denver is really a football town, as the Rockies have been a lot of fun to watch, and have pulled off a bunch of great comeback wins this summer.
Remarkably, Colorado was on track to lose 100 games two months into the season (they were 20-32 on June 3rd), and have played at a 113-victory season pace since then (52-22).
Nate Silver’s linked article is funny in a morbid way, in that he wrote it at almost exactly the moment the Mets began what turned out to be the second-most spectacular collapse, statistically speaking, in baseball history.