HOUSTON — Bud Black mixed humor with an air of seriousness ahead of Wednesday’s Rockies versus Astros game, where Colorado prepared for the series finale against a Cy Young contender pitching for a World Series favorite.
On the lighter side, he ranked Minute Maid Park as his favorite current indoor stadium in the majors. That came with the happy admission he “sort of liked that hill out there in center” and that he definitely wouldn’t have enjoyed pitching here, where “with my slow hook, (Yuli) Gurriel would golf it into the train tracks in left every single night.