Notre Dame once won one for the Gipper.
The Rockies just had a snow-out for the skipper.
Clint Hurdle is sick to the point of concern.
“He’s out of energy,” said Rockies’ bench coach Jamie Quirk, who filled in for the ailing manager the past two days. “For some reason he has no energy, and they’re trying to find out why.”
But if ever there was a day for Hurdle to call in absent and crawl under the warm blankets of home, it was Wednesday night. After a rain delay of 1 hour, 33 minutes, the Rockies and Florida Marlins tried to play baseball on what would have been the coldest night in Coors Field history. By the second inning, the 35-degree game-time temperature dipped to the point of transforming the steady drizzle into snow.
With the Rockies up 1-0, the game was called and scheduled to be made up today as part of a doubleheader. However, it probably wouldn’t hurt Hurdle to sleep in – the Rockies have been told they have only a 30 percent chance of playing today, a big reason Major League Baseball urged the teams to try to start the game Wednesday.
“I knew before the game started we would never get it in,” said Rockies starter , who threw two hitless and scoreless innings for naught. “They should have never even (started) it.”
If the doubleheader can’t be played today, one makeup option is to play one game here at a later date and another in Florida. The Rockies are scheduled to visit Miami for a three-game series May 6-8. Both teams have an off day May 5.
At least the bum weather prevented Hurdle from missing a second game. On Tuesday, he was sent to Rose Medical Center with an extremely high fever and underwent tests. He was too ill to watch the Rockies lose to the Marlins 9-3 on television.
“We talked about the game (Wednesday), but he didn’t see it,” Quirk said.
Hurdle is hoping to return to the ballpark today, although there’s a chance he may have to meet the team at the airport later today. The Rockies begin a nine-game road trip Friday in Los Angeles.
“We’re playing that by ear,” trainer Keith Dugger said. “Especially with the long road trip we have coming up, we want to make sure he’s all right.”
Mike Klis can be reached at 303-820-5440 or mklis@denverpost.com.
