A bitter 27-degree first pitch temperature did not freeze one of Colorado’s most magical days. And neither did an hour-long delay beforehand. The baseball for the home nine tried. The Braves beat down the Rockies 8-3.
The short sleeve-wielding German Marquez toed the slab in the second-coldest game in franchise history. After thawing in the first inning, he threw three scoreless but the fifth iced him as fellow pitcher Brandon McCarthy threw liquid nitrogen on the Rockies in the form of a two-run, two-out double. That extra-bagger pushed the lead to four, finishing Marquez with seven earned runs before he made it through five.