It was suddenly summer in Chicago Tuesday, with temperatures in the mid-80s and the wind blowing out strongly at Wrigley Field at 16 miles per hour at game time. And after I saw this tweet:
... I figured we’d be in for a high-scoring affair with lots of home runs.
After the first inning, there was nothing to disabuse me of that notion. 10 pitches into the game, the Rockies had a 2-0 lead on solo homers by Charlie Blackmon and David Dahl off Kyle Hendricks.
Remember when Anthony Rizzo led off a few games in the summer of 2017 and homered to lead off?