Friday dawned cold and gray, but by noon the sun peeked through and the morning snow was a memory.
By 2:10 p.m., the first-pitch temperature at Coors Field had inched up to 39 degrees, not ideal for baseball, but not too bad for an early April day in Colorado.
Except that there was no first pitch. The coronavirus pandemic wiped out the Rockies’ home opener, just as it has altered so many aspects of our lives.
LoDo wasn’t completely a ghost town Friday. Construction workers hammered away on high-rises, a few cars streamed by on 20th and Blake, and a young woman jogged by the ballpark, led by her black lab.