PHOENIX, Ariz. — In the dog days of the baseball season, Chase Field has all the charm of a big-box Costco or a shipping warehouse, but the Rockies will find a little piece of home waiting for them to open the season here Thursday night.
The Diamondbacks will debut their humidor against the Rockies, just the second use of a climate-controlled space to store baseballs, mimicking the one Coors Field started using in 2002. Arizona, like the Rockies do, will store baseballs in the humidor before carting them to the umpires’ room just before game time.