DENVER — There was a fight outside Coors Field on Friday afternoon.
More specifically, a snowball fight — with a couple Dodgers fans enjoying an early-spring snow day at the Rockies’ home ballpark.
In the hours leading up to the start of a four-game series betweenthe Dodgersand Rockies, a snowstorm swept through Denver, covering the streets, seats and field in and around Coors Field with a pristine layer of frozen white powder.
Hello from Denverpic.twitter.com/OYOZ4M0yGL
Like the fans outside,Dodgers playersinside the stadium enjoyed the conditions — which were not expected to impact that night’s game.
Connecticut native Emmet Sheehan had a snowball fight of his own with one of the team’s radio broadcasters. A snowman was built on the railing of the visiting dugout along the third base line.
Baseball weather in Colorado! ☃️Emmet Sheehan is making a snowman before things clear up.(Via:@MasayaKotani)pic.twitter.com/8TwPbaTZ2u
The weather didn’t stopthe Dodgersfrom some of their normal pregame routines. Freddie Freeman, for example, cleared an area for his normal afternoon picking session. Dodgers pitchers still played catch in the outfield — where a tractor had cleared snow from the grass Zamboni-style — even as more flurries fell from an overcast sky.
Though the snow was scheduled to let up in time for first pitch, temperatures were expected to keep on plunging into the low 30s.
But, as a glass-half-full Uber driver quipped while dropping a reporter off at the ballpark, “at least the beers will stay cold.”
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