The Baseball Team Bases a Mile above the Sea Level - Colorado Rockies

The Baseball Team Bases a Mile above the Sea Level - Colorado Rockies

Colorado Rockies is a MLB team based in Denver. Colorado Rockies doesn`t have a big name as the New York Yankees since it didn`t have even a championship in its history. But this can`t blame Colorado Rockies itself. It`s mainly because of its home field, the Denver Coors baseball field.

Denver has the name of The Mile-High City because the 15th stair on the west of the City Hall is 1 mile above the sea level. Colorado Rockies is based in such a city on highland thus its baseball field was about 1600 meters high above sea level. The air density here is much lower than other baseball fields and the highland makes the attractive force of earth much smaller than flatland. These two characteristics make the ball flies much further than a general condition, about 10 percent further. This made the ball which would be received becomes a home run. When the baseball field was being built, the designer thought of the effect of highland and built it 10% larger than an ordinary one. The designer wanted to get the balance though this way, but he or she was failed to accomplish this aim. When the ball was kicked by the cue, it looks like flying on the moon, absolutely separated from the gravitational force. So the Coors baseball field has two nick names, one is The Tomb of Pitcher, and another is The Heaven of Batters. It produced many awards for batters but none for pitchers.

This problem was solved in 2002. Colorado Rockies began to use the cigar box to store the baseball and then put the box into a equipment which can keep a constant moisture. They took out the balls just before the game in order to shorten the time which the ball is in the domestic cold air. This process successfully makes the ball`s hardness and elasticity improved. In the first two trial years, the home run decreased more than 35 times a year. The number of home run decreased to fewer than 200 in 2005. In the recent five years, the number is always under 200 and in 2008 it reached the lowest number since 1995, the time when the field was built. Also, it`s the first time under the average number of the whole MLB.

Now, Coors baseball field has become an ordinary field for Colorado Rockies and we can expect that it will become a shine team one day.

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