Looking at the tentative schedule for 2010 for the Rockies, a few of the big quirks of the past couple of years are gone. No wild coast to coast road trips. In fact, other than an 11 game road road trip right after the All-star break, and a 9 game trip in early May, the Rockies don't have any road trips longer than 7 games, and none of them to travel to two time zones. By comparison, they had 3 double digit road trips and 2 more that were 9 and a 3 city 8 gamer in 2009.
On the home side, there are two 10 game home stands. Everthing else is 6, 7, or 8 games except for a 3 game set with Milwaukee in August separating a six game road trip on the east coast from a 6 game west coast swing. In fact that 12 out of 15 road games is as bad as it gets next season. The discrepancy between home and away games never gets worse than 7 games next year. In 2009 between the 2nd road trip and the homestand last week, it never got better than 7 games after a road trip, and reached a peak of 14 more road games than home games in June--two separate times.
So from a home and away standpoint it's a rather consistent week home and week away with the noted exceptions above. Fairly sane from a travel standpoint.
In inter-league play the Rockies get their usual 15 games play a team from each American League Division. They travel to the Central's Kansas City in May, and Minnesota in June, as well as the West's LA Angels. They host the East's Boston and Toronto. The extra NL Series comes at home against Milwaukee, this year it was Pittsburgh.
Other than the 9 and 9 home games with all 4 of their West opponents, the Rockies play 3 and 3 against the East and Central teams except for the extra series with the Brewers and the other exceptions. 2 at Chicago and Houston, 4 each home and away with Washington, 4 at St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Florida, and Philadelphia and 4 at home against Cincinnati and Houston.
The one oddity that stands out is that nearly half (35 of 72) of the games against the NL West come between August 3 and September 29. This includes 12 games against the Dodgers, 9 against the Diamondbacks, 8 against the Giants and 6 against the Padres. Only 3 games against the West come in the first 3 weeks, followed by 12 straight starting April 26. Another set of 12 come from May 25-June 6. The remaining 10 games come just before the All-star break.
From a Rockies perspective, overall it looks like a pretty reasonable schedule compared to the past few years.
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