DENVER — Two thoughts crossed Todd Helton’s mind when he awoke to a snowstorm Sunday.
“Good hunting weather,” the Colorado Rockies first baseman said. “We don’t have to go out on the field and practice today. That was my only other thought.”
The snowstorm forced the Rockies indoors for their next-to-last workout before flying off to the AL champion’s city for the World Series that starts Wednesday night.
Batters took their cuts in cages beneath the stands at Coors Field, and pitchers split up and threw off the indoor mounds next to the home and visitors’ batting cages.
The snowfall isn’t necessarily a pretense to what the teams will face when the World Series returns to Denver on Saturday night.
“Well, we don’t play here for another week and you know how the weather is here,” Helton said. “It could be 80 degrees in a week, so I’m not concerned about that.”
The snow began melting by the afternoon and the forecast for Denver called for a high of 53 degrees Monday with upper 60s and lower 70s the rest of the week leading up to the first World Series games in the Rocky Mountains.
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