DENVER -- The opener of the New York Mets' three-game series against the Colorado Rockies on Friday was postponed, 6 1/2 hours before the scheduled first pitch, with a winter storm warning in effect for the Denver area.
The forecast calls for 3 to 5 inches of snow at Coors Field.
The teams are scheduled to make it up in a split doubleheader on Saturday at 1:10 p.m. and 6:40 p.m. MDT. But more snow was in the forecast for Saturday morning before it was expected to clear, with a low of 34 degrees in the evening
The rare late-May mountain storm started as rain Friday morning, but was expected to switch to snow in the afternoon with the temperature plunging to freezing.