It was a perfect Friday night for baseball at Coors Field. The first-pitch temperature was 73 degrees, there were 33,747 fans in the stands, and six home runs.
Yep, perfect if you were one of the multitude of Cubs fans who turned the LoDo ballpark into Wrigley Field West, saw shortstop Dansby Swanson smack two homers and a triple, and cheered your team on to an 11-7 victory over the Rockies.
But for Colorado starter German Marquez, it was a game to forget.
Making his first start since going on the injured list with right biceps tendinitis on July 21, Marquez was gone after 4 1/3 innings, having given up eight runs on nine hits.