With rule changes and exciting young players, I entered the 2023 Colorado Rockies season with some excitement, in addition to the perennial happiness baseball brings—even knowing the Rockies are likely to be a sub-.500 team.
After the opening homestand at Coors Field, all of those feelings remain true; however, that was also a weird homestand. The reasons aren’t necessarily related to the play on the field. The Rockies went 3-4, but they actually could have put up a winning record. They blew winnable games due to bad defense and bullpen struggles that turned a possible Cardinal sweep into a 2-1 series loss.