By ARNIE STAPLETON, AP Sports Writer 4 minutes ago
DENVER - In a season that needed an extra day, Matt Holliday and the Colorado Rockies needed extra innings to pull off the most dramatic comeback of the year.
Holliday raced home on Jamey Carroll's shallow fly ball, capping a stunning, three-run rally in the 13th inning against Trevor Hoffman and leading the Rockies over the San Diego Padres 9-8 Monday night in a tiebreaker for the NL wild card.
"It's been an incredible run from game 1 to game 163," Rockies manager Clint Hurdle said.
After Scott Hairston's two-run homer put the Padres ahead in the top of the 13th, Colorado came back against baseball's career saves leader.
The Rockies, who won for the 14th time in 15 games, took the longest one-game tiebreaker in major league history. They advanced to play Philadelphia in the first round starting Wednesday.
So that's that! Whoohoo! The playoffs should prove interesting...
Greg loves his New England patriots, and this game in the NL that we rarely watch (Tigers are in the AL) was so interesting to him, that he told me not to turn it to the New England game, lol! I thought that was pretty darn cool, lol! Anyways, it was all baseball here tonight! Playoffs start on Wednesday, and there are 3 games, whoohoo! There'll be more where tonight came from!
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