At 5:34 p.m. on Memorial Day, before many of us had fired up the grill or taken our first belly flop in the pool of the summer, it was already late in the 2019 baseball season for the Rockies.
This underperforming Colorado team, manager Bud Black acknowledged Monday, finds itself “in a spot where we hoped to be better. But we’re not.”
Yes, 110 games remain on the regular-season schedule. The Rockies, however, really needed this 4-3, extra-inning victory against Arizona, on a day when the Diamondbacks started veteran Zack Greinke, among the best pitchers in the game.