Like the NFL on Thanksgiving or the NBA on Christmas, the Fourth of July is a flagship day for Major League Baseball, with specialty uniforms and marquee matchups adorning the fields of America's Pastime for the country's birthday each year.
This season, though, MLB's schedule makers have shown themselves to have either a twisted sense of humor or a genius read on the zeitgeist (possibly both) by scheduling the Chicago White Sox and Colorado Rockies for a series in Denver beginning Friday on Independence Day.
In a weird way, it's a perfect matchup for sports fans: The White Sox notoriously lost a modern-MLB-record 121 games in 2024, and the Rockies are somehow on pace to lose even more in 2025.