GRAND JUNCTION — When the Colorado Rockies drafted Riley Pint in the first round, a single phrase, often punctuated with an emphatic question mark, began to emanate from the minds and lips of prospect evaluators everywhere: “A 102 mph fastball?”
In the immortal words of Kurt Angle: It’s true, it’s true.
BSN Denver was in attendance for the Grand Junction Rockies final series of the year and caught up with Pint a day after his final start. It was a crazy game with playoff implications where both teams ended up in double digits — that’s Coors Lite Field for you — but it was the feeling leading up to the game that will stick with Pint.