I went to my first Colorado Rockies game of the season yesterday afternoon with my friend Mark and sister Susan, seen in the photograph above, at Coors Field here in Denver. The Rockies, who currently are the worst team in baseball, were playing the Detroit Tigers, who right now have the second-best record in the major leagues. However, the weather was great, the seats were good, and Kyle Freeland, a long-time Rockies ace pitcher, was on the mound. How bad could it get? Very bad, actually. By the end of the third inning, the Rockies were behind 9-0, and Detroit won the game by a final score of 10-2. Because Tuesday's game was rained out, the make-up game was played right after yesterday's regularly scheduled contest. And it was a true doubleheader - not one of those day-night affairs where the fans are herded out the gates and a separate paying crowd replaces them in the evening. I didn't think those kinds of doubleheaders even existed anymore. Although we could have watched two baseball games for the price of one, we decided not to stay, and I later saw that the Tigers won the second game 11-1. As the sportscasters said later in the evening, a new low point in the season. I suspect there might be a lot more of those in the near future.
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