“Coming into the stadium, the sights, the smells, the sounds and everything, I mean I can remember it like it was yesterday.”
It’s one thing for a diehard Rockies fan to echo the sentiment of being blown away by a ballpark in all its beauty, it’s another for your team’s fifth starter to be shouting the nostalgia to the media.
For good reason, Kyle Freeland is in a space emotionality right now that most of us only dreamt about being in when we were 12-years-old. Coors Field, the Colorado Rockies, the Los Angeles Dodgers, you’re stepping out of the first-base dugout just a few miles from your high school dugout.