SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The coronavirus is a bully sports realized can only be beaten by hanging up the spikes and skates, bagging all the equipment and going home. On the day major-league baseball finally got smart, the thin white line taped to carpet inside at the Rockies’ spring training facility, which never protected anyone from a pandemic, looked dangerously fragile and more than a little naïve.
“It’s a strange time, waiting in the dark, with the TV or radio on,” Rockies pitcher Jon Gray said Thursday, talking to reporters about the until-further-notice end of the sports world as we know it.