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Stories from Grand Junction: Riley Pint touches 101 mph

On Thursday, the Grand Junction Rockies played a pair of baseball games, that included an appearance from first-round draft pick Riley Pint. Clan Creasman was in attendance and filed this report:

“It’s a great day for a ball game. Let’s play two.” –E. Banks (noted philosopher)

It’s a heck of a thing to start your day down by one in the fifth, but that’s where the Grand Junction Rockies found themselves at six o’clock on a cool Thursday afternoon in July, finishing a game that started over 650 miles away. And by the end of the fifth, they were down by two.