Coors Canaveral is back.
After San Francisco’s offensive explosion in the Giants’ 19-2 win over Colorado on Monday afternoon in the first game of a split doubleheader, the Rockies’ stadium is averaging 14.1 runs per game this season. That’s a new post-humidor extreme in LoDo, where scoring averaged 13.4 runs per game in the last pre-humidor year, in 2001.
“It’s been a little wacky the last month, as it’s started heating up,” Rockies manager Bud Black said. “But this is what’s happening in 2019, so we really have to cinch our belt a little tighter as pitchers and work our way through this.