"I don't think it's luck at all. If it was luck, we would have just won one, two or three games," Castilla said. "We won 21 out of 22, man. It's an unbelievable run."
Matt Holliday's home run in the fourth inning Monday night was his second home run in as many games and solidified his selection as the NLCS Most Valuable Player.
Holliday, who slumped in Games 1 and 2 in Phoenix, going only 1-for-8, went 2-for-3 with three RBI and a run in the Rockies' 6-4 Game 4 win.
The leftfielder, a co-favorite for the NL MVP along with Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins, said throughout the Rockies' unprecedented stretch run that the team learned to take each game for what it was worth.
"The most we ever talked about during that time was fantasy football," said Holliday, the first outfielder to win the Warren Giles Trophy since the Braves' Mike Devereaux in 1995.
Rookie Seth Smith delivered a two-out, pinch-hit, two-run double in the fourth that drove in what proved to be in the winning run. He is now 2-for-4 in the postseason, with two RBI.
"Seth seems to be our lucky charm," third baseman Garrett Atkins said. "Every time he comes up, he's getting a big hit. It might not be the hardest hit, but it's in the right spot."
Atkins said he has never been on a team in which so many people contribute.
"That's probably why I haven't been to the World Series before. You need 25 guys that are all pulling in the same direction, and we have that here," he said.
The team that was nine games under .500 in May, six games out of the NL West at the beginning of September and two games out of the playoffs with two games left in the regular season is now 7-0 in the postseason. Before their Game 1 win over the Phillies in the NL Division Series, the Rockies had only one playoff victory in their 14 years of existence.
