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DENVER — The Rockies were down two runs and not even out of the top of the 13th inning of Monday night’s National League Wild Card tiebreaker when Todd Helton, the former Tennessee Volunteers football quarterback, huddled his teammates.Helton called the play that would defeat Padres closer extraordinaire Trevor Hoffman in the bottom of the inning and touch off a postgame shower of champagne and beer.

Staying as patient as their leader said to, Kazuo Matsui and Troy Tulowitzki doubled, and Matt Holliday tripled and scored on Jamey Carroll’s sacrifice fly for a 9-8 victory, sending the Rockies to the NL Division Series and touching off bedlam from a sellout crowd of 48,404.

MLB Video of the 13th Inning.

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