Snow messes up Mets vs. Rockies series in Denver

Coors Field usually hums with baseball energy, but not this week. A winter storm warning has turned the Colorado capital into a snow globe. Tuesday’s game between the Mets and Rockies never left the station—it’s been pushed to Thursday at 3:30. Wednesday’s 3:10 start was shoved even later, to 9:20, so plows can clear the parking lots.The forecast sounds like a bad recipe: rain mixing with snow all afternoon, then pure snow after 8 p. m. Tuesday. By late night, four to eight inches could pile up, making a baseball diamond look like a ski slope. Denver isn’t new to this—snow has crashed MLB plans before. In 2022, a late-May game vanished under white. A year earlier, April saw four to seven inches cancel the opener. Teams are already rerouting. The Mets jet to Arizona Friday; the Rockies fly east to Philadelphia the same day. A Monday win gave the Mets a 4-2 edge in the series before travel got messy. Baseball folks know Denver’s April and May can flip from sunshine to slush fast. Schedules built on hope don’t always match stubborn weather.