Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Coors Field hosts the first World Series game ever played in Colorado

2007 · Coors Field, Denver

On October 27, 2007, the Rockies came home down two games to none and played the first World Series game in Colorado history in front of 49,983 people at Coors Field. Boston won 10–5 behind Daisuke Matsuzaka and took a 3–0 series lead.

The Rockies got to the 2007 World Series on one of the hottest streaks in baseball history, winning 21 of 22 games through the end of the regular season and the first two rounds of the playoffs. The streak ended in Boston, where the Red Sox won the first two games.

Game 3 in Denver was still a first. No World Series game had ever been played in Colorado, and 49,983 fans packed Coors Field for it. It was also the World Series debut of the ballpark's humidor, the room that stores baseballs at a controlled humidity so they fly less in the thin air.

Josh Fogg started for Colorado. Daisuke Matsuzaka started for Boston and held the Rockies scoreless into the sixth inning, giving up two runs on three hits in 5 1/3 innings. The Rockies rallied late, but the Red Sox pulled away and won 10–5. Matsuzaka became the first Japanese-born pitcher to win a World Series game.

The Red Sox finished the sweep the next night. The 2007 Rockies still left Denver with something nobody had seen before: October baseball that ran all the way to the last series of the year.

Sources: Baseball-Reference: 2007 World Series Game 3 box score · SABR Games Project: October 27, 2007 · Rox Pile: Rockies vs. Red Sox, 2007 World Series Game 3

October 27, 2020: 8 degrees, and a 95-year-old record falls

2020 · Denver

During the Arctic outbreak at the end of October 2020, Denver dropped to 8°F on October 27, breaking the date's record low of 11°F, which had stood since 1925.

The fall of 2020 had been warm, dry and smoky. Then the last week of October brought one of the sharpest early-season cold snaps in Denver's records. On the morning of October 27, the low fell to 8°F, three degrees below the old record of 11°F, which had lasted 95 years, since 1925.

The same week brought several inches of snow, and the cold arrived only days after some of the state's largest wildfires had been burning in the mountains. For a few days the snow and cold did what firefighters could not, slowing the East Troublesome and Cameron Peak fires.

By November the city was back in the 60s. That's late October in Denver.

Sources: Extreme Weather Watch: Denver October 27 records · KMAX: Denver broke a 95-year-old low temperature record

October 27, 2016: 83 degrees on a late-October afternoon

2016 · Denver

Denver's record high for October 27 is 83°F, set in 2016. The coldest daytime high for the date, 29°F, came just three years later in 2019.

October 27, 2016 felt more like August, with the high reaching 83°F, the warmest the date has been in Denver's records. Three years later, in 2019, the high on the same date reached only 29°F during a run of early cold.

The snowiest October 27 on record brought just 2.0 inches, in 2009, which says something about this particular date: it tends to be either warm or bitterly cold and dry, not snowy. The big October storms have mostly picked other days.

Sources: Extreme Weather Watch: Denver October 27 records