DENVER – For Colorado Rockies rookie Antonio Senzatela, it has been a whirlwind, surreal trip around the sun.
A year ago, he missed the vast majority of his Double-A season with an injury and then after the tragic death of his mother due to cancer.
In a season that has seen the Mark Reynolds Renaissance, the Gerardo Parra Rebound, and the Bullpen Boom, it has been 22-year-old Senzatela whose story is the most inspirational. We are fond of saying that sports are not life and death. This is true. But oftentimes, they are life. This game, silly as it is, is something a great deal of people — myself included — have given large chunks of our time … of our life … to.