It hailed at Coors Field on Thursday.
Before you think, “Well, it’s summer, and hail is common in hot weather,” understand this was no typical hailstorm. It really, really hailed. Apocalyptic hail. This roared through like the Shohei Ohtani of hailstorms.
Kelsey Wingert-Linch, a reporter with the Colorado Rockies’ AT&T SportsNet, shared some surreal images of the freak storm on Twitter.
One video shows a dugout floor covered in hail, and hail piled up within a few inches of the clubhouse doors.
#Rockies dugout was almost two feet deep in hail up to the handles on the door to the clubhouse. Insane! pic.twitter.com/pEEQVEkono
— Kelsey Wingert-Linch (@KelsWingert) June 29, 2023
As Wingert-Linch noted in one video, “I have never seen anything like this in my life.”
Some of the players took the opportunity to play around in what looked like a snowstorm. The hail piled up deep enough for catcher Elias Diaz to make snow angels.
Don’t bother @EliasDiaz32 right now, he’s busy pic.twitter.com/oPGmczWyqc
— Kelsey Wingert-Linch (@KelsWingert) June 29, 2023
Did the MLB world storm Twitter to comment on this strange event? Hail, yes. As Drew Rice Creasman noted in a video he posted, “The End Times, at Coors Field.”
The End Times, at Coors Field pic.twitter.com/nMuiMLPiZ5
— drewcreasman.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (@DrewCreasman) June 29, 2023
Currently at 20th and Blake.. pic.twitter.com/keQY5rTYV7
— Manny Randhawa (@MannyOnMLB) June 29, 2023
Hail. Lots of it. At Coors Field.
On the field.
In the dugout.
Everywhere. pic.twitter.com/4rk5jJwLxi
— Patrick Lyons (@PatrickDLyons) June 29, 2023
What the hail?
— Greg Barry (@gregjbarry) June 29, 2023
I have seen hail before never anything like that
— Maurice Albornoz (@mo_albornoz) June 29, 2023
Dang that’s a lot of hail!
— The_Charming_Avenger (Taylor’s Version)⚜️ (@Boeing74) June 29, 2023
KUSA-TV’s Chris Vanderveen had the most epic response to the storm, given the Rockies’ dismal 32-50 record entering the day.
“Has the hail done so much damage to Coors Field that the rest of the season must now be cancelled? Asking. For a friend,” Vanderveen tweeted.
Has the hail done so much damage to Coors Field that the rest of the season must now be cancelled?
Asking.
For a friend. pic.twitter.com/7iH1DMpnx6
— Chris Vanderveen (yep…me) (@chrisvanderveen) June 29, 2023
The Rockies game against the Los Angeles Dodgers will go on as scheduled.
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