Erstwhile Baseball Prospectus writer and current Astros front office member Kevin Goldstein defined any game that went beyond midnight local time as “weird baseball,” and there was plenty of weirdness, not much of it good for the home team, in the Rockies 17-9 loss to the Reds on Saturday.
Kyle Freeland’s return to Coors Field was delayed more than three hours by weather and after a smooth top of the first from the Rockies lefty, the hit parade began. The Rockies and Reds combined for 26 runs on 39 hits in a game that started at 9:20 p.