Compiled by Bill Chuck

• This is the first time two teams from the NL West will meet for a league title, the first time in five years that a West team made it out of the first round.
• The Rockies led the league with a .280 batting average. Arizona ranked last, batting .250.
• Colorado has won 17 of their past 18 games and has outscored the opposition 118-59 during that stretch.
• Until Colorado did it, no team in baseball history had finished 14-1 to reach the postseason. The Rockies have lost once in the last month.
• The Diamondbacks will use a four-man rotation and won't bring back ace Brandon Webb on three days of rest to start Game 4 at Coors Field, according to manager Bob Melvin announced. Citing Webb's workload - 243 1/3 innings, counting the NL Division Series - and the fact he never has pitched on three days' rest, Melvin said, "We try to err on the side of caution. I just don't see bringing anybody back on three days' rest."
• Webb is scheduled to pitch Game 5, if necessary, with one additional day of rest. Davis, with two extra days of rest, would be in line to start Game 6, followed by Hernandez in Game 7 with one extra day of rest.
• Webb established career highs for wins (18), strikeouts (194) and innings pitched (236-1/3) in '07. He had a 42-inning scoreless streak from July 20 to Aug. 22 that included three straight shutouts - the first pitcher to do so since Roger Clemens with Toronto in 1998.
• The lone loss during the last 18 Rockies games was a Webb-pitched 4-2 victory on Sept. 28.
• Arizona is 10-8 in its last 18 games.
• Micah Owings has a streak of 15 1/3 scoreless innings, but he hasn't pitched since Sept. 27.
• Owings hit .333 with 4 homers and 15 RBIs in 60 at-bats.
• Arizona shortstop Stephen Drew is the younger brother of Boston's J.D. Drew.
• Stephen Drew hit .238 during the regular season. On Sept. 17, he went 0 for 5, dropping his average to .228. From there, he hit .371.
• On May 21, the Rockies were 9 games below .500. That equals the fourth-biggest deficit overcome by a team that has reached the postseason. Houston was 15 games below .500 at one point in 2005. Oakland, in 2001, and Florida, in 2003, each were 10 games below .500. The 1995 Yankees, 1996 Cardinals and 2007 Cubs also were nine games below at some point.
• “We've got two guys up from Double-A!” said Arizona first baseman Conor Jackson, referring to third baseman Mark Reynolds and outfielder Justin Upton, the latter of whom began the year in Single-A. “That's like jumping from sixth grade to senior year, algebra to calculus.”
• Colorado's 22-year-old Troy Tulowitzki hit 24 home runs, most by a shortstop in NL history. He batted .291 with 99 runs batted in while leading all major-league shortstops in fielding percentage.
• The Rockies led the league in fielding.
• The Diamondbacks finished 11th in fielding.
• Despite the worst batting average in the league (.250), Arizona had the NL's best record (90-72).
• The Rockies trailed in only one full inning of the 27 in the three NL Division Series games.
• The Rockies outscored the Phillies, 16-8, outhit them, 27-16, and held them to a .172 average. Chase Utley, Pat Burrell and Jimmy Rollins all went 2 for 11 in the series. Aaron Rowand went 1 for 12. Ryan Howard had three hits, tied with Carlos Ruiz for most on the team.
• Colorado swept Philadelphia in the NL Division Series despite the fact that Matt Holliday, Todd Helton, Brad Hawpe and Garrett Atkins, who combined for 107 home runs and 455 RBI during the regular season, hit.204 (10-for-49) in the NLDS.
• The Rockies added center fielder Wily Taveras to their postseason roster but chose not to include right-hander Aaron Cook, who threw about 90 pitches in an instructional league game in Tucson yesterday. Taveras, acquired in a trade with Houston last winter, was sidelined for the last three weeks of the season and the Rockies' sweep of Philadelphia in the first round. Cook was 8-7 with a 4.12 ERA when he was sidelined by an oblique injury Aug. 10.
• The Diamondbacks were televised regionally on a Fox Saturday game only twice.
• Matt Holliday led the NL in average (.340), RBIs (137), doubles (50), total bases (386) and was fourth in home runs (36).
• Coming out of high school in Stillwater, Okla., Holliday ranked alongside Carson Palmer and Drew Henson as the best three or four quarterbacks in the nation.
• Todd Helton hit .469 at Chase Field this season. In nine games, Helton went 15-for-32 with four doubles, one home run, seven RBI, nine walks and one strikeout. Helton's 12 career home runs at Chase Field are his second-highest total in an opposing park, trailing the 13 he has hit at Dodger Stadium.
• Seth Smith made his major league debut on Sept. 16. He went 5-for-7 as a pinch hitter, which earned him a spot on the Rockies' roster for the Division Series, where he went 1-for-2 as a pinch hitter.
• Both teams swept their opponents in the Division Series, both scored 16 total runs.

Bill Chuck is the creator of Billy-Ball.com and, with Jim Kaplan, is the author of the book, “Walk-Offs, Last Licks, and Final Outs – Baseball’s Grand (and not so Grand) Finales” to be published by ACTA Sports, February of next year.