2008 Colorado Rockies season

The Colorado Rockies' 2008 season was the team's 16th season overall. The Rockies attempted to repeat their 2007 [Colorado Rockies season|previous season]'s success after making it to the World Series; however, they ended up finishing third place in the National League West with a record of 74-88. The Rockies drew 2,650,218 fans for the season, their highest total since 2002. The average home attendance was 33,127 fans.
Likely the most memorable game of the year was against the San Diego Padres on April 17, as it went 22 innings before Troy Tulowitzki drove in the winning run. It is the longest Rockies game in franchise history and the longest game of the 21st century.

Offseason

December 7, 2007: Jamey Carroll was traded by the Colorado Rockies to the Cleveland Indians for a player to be named later. The Cleveland Indians sent Sean Smith to the Colorado Rockies to complete the trade.
December 13, 2007: Kip Wells and Luis Vizcaíno were signed as free agents by the Colorado Rockies.
February 17, 2008: Scott Podsednik was signed as a free agent by the Colorado Rockies.
March 26, 2008: Ramón Ramírez was traded by the Colorado Rockies to the Kansas City Royals for a player to be named later. The Kansas City Royals sent Jorge de la Rosa to the Colorado Rockies to complete the trade.

Regular season

Transactions

April 30, 2008: Jason Grilli was traded by the Detroit Tigers to the Colorado Rockies for Zach Simons.
May 16, 2008: Glendon Rusch was signed as a free agent by the Colorado Rockies.
August 6, 2008: Liván Hernández was selected off waivers by the Colorado Rockies from the Minnesota Twins.
August 14, 2008: Kip Wells was released by the Colorado Rockies.

Major League debuts

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	Chris Iannetta	104	333	88	.264	18	65
1B	Todd Helton	83	299	79	.264	7	29
2B	Clint Barmes	107	393	114	.290	11	44
SS	Troy Tulowitzki	101	377	99	.263	8	46
3B	Garrett Atkins	155	611	175	.286	21	99
LF	Matt Holliday	139	539	173	.321	25	88
CF	Willy Taveras	133	479	120	.251	1	26
RF	Brad Hawpe	138	488	138	.283	25	85

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
	104	299	80	.268	12	48
	81	266	69	.259	10	41
	70	236	58	.246	6	31
	89	233	73	.313	6	36
	81	210	50	.238	2	15
	93	162	41	.253	1	15
	67	108	28	.259	4	15
Jonathan Herrera	28	61	14	.230	0	3
Jayson Nix	22	56	7	.125	0	2
Joe Koshansky	18	38	8	.211	3	8
Dexter Fowler	13	26	4	.154	0	0
Cory Sullivan	18	23	5	.217	0	4
Adam Melhuse	7	10	1	.100	0	1
Doug Bernier	2	4	0	.000	0	0
Edwin Bellorin	3	3	1	.333	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	32	211.1	16	9	3.96	96
	34	198.2	12	12	3.99	172
	24	143.2	4	10	5.01	94
	28	130.0	10	8	4.92	128
	14	62.0	2	8	8.13	22
Mark Redman	10	45.1	2	5	7.54	20
Liván Hernández	8	40.1	3	3	8.03	13
Franklin Morales	5	25.1	1	2	6.39	9
Valerio De Los Santos	2	8.0	0	1	5.63	10

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	23	64.0	4	3	4.78	43
Jason Hirsh	4	8.2	0	0	8.31	6

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
	67	1	5	30	2.73	82
	76	3	4	4	4.52	50
	63	6	6	1	2.17	56
	58	3	4	0	5.04	46
	51	3	2	1	2.93	59
Ryan Speier	43	2	1	0	4.06	33
Luis Vizcaíno	43	1	2	0	5.28	49
Kip Wells	15	1	2	0	5.27	22
Alberto Arias	12	0	0	0	2.63	5
Steven Register	10	0	0	0	9.00	8
Micah Bowie	10	0	1	0	9.00	5
Josh Newman	8	0	0	0	9.35	6
Cedrick Bowers	5	0	0	0	13.50	5
José Capellán	1	0	0	0	4.50	2
Juan Morillo	1	0	0	0	0.00	0