An "ohhh" escaped the mouths of 46,828 fans, then in harmony, they all breathed in. And as the thin air sucked out of Coors Field, everyone watched Carlos Gonzalez's home run travel toward the moon.
The Rockies' slugger cracked a ball so far and so high Sunday afternoon, it even craned necks on the third deck.
All that breathing and all that craning was a workout. The Rockies ran up a score higher than a Scrabble game between Merriam and Webster.
Gonzalez and Ben Paulsen hammered two home runs apiece and Colorado cycled through 14 batters in a 10-run third inning as the Rockies Coors Field'd the Reds, 17-7, on a hot Sunday afternoon in LoDo.