DENVER -- As part of the inaugural Play Ball Weekend, a league-wide effort by MLB and all 30 clubs to engage young baseball fans and celebrate youth participation in baseball and softball, the Colorado Rockies and Root Sports hosted a baseball clinic at the Boys & Girls Club of Owen on Saturday morning.
One-hundred and seventy-four boys and girls, ages 10 to 12, participated in the clinic in which Rockies players Carlos Gonzalez, Gerardo Parra, Cristhian Adames, Carlos Estevez and Scott Oberg taught the fundamentals of hitting, pitching, fielding and baserunning.