A heartfelt message to the Rockies: Hey, fellas. Relax. It’s only baseball. And so long as you have Nolan Arenado on your side, why worry about such trivial nuisances as the Cardinals, Brewers and playoff pressure?
“This is what we wanted. These games are all meaningful. This is fun,” Arenado told me by telephone from San Diego, where the Rockies enter the final week of a 162-game regular season trying to nail down the franchise’s first playoff berth since 2009. “It feels so much better to win at this time of the year. When you lose, it’s heartbreaking.