{"id":66823,"date":"2024-02-16T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=66823"},"modified":"2024-02-16T10:52:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:52:26","slug":"rockies-first-spring-training-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/02\/16\/rockies-first-spring-training-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies Gear Up for Their First Spring Training Game in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring Training is finally here! Which means we are closer to the start of the 2024 MLB regular season! Today, we&#8217;ll see the Colorado Rockies play their first Spring Training game of the year. The Rockies will face last year&#8217;s National League champions, the Arizona Diamondbacks. This season will be the 30th anniversary of the Rockies franchise, and there are <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/02\/08\/rockies-questions-2024-season\/\" target=\"_self\">plenty of questions<\/a> heading into Spring Training for this Rockies team. Last season, they pulled off their worst losing season in franchise history. Colorado hopes not to embarrass themselves for a second straight year.<\/p>\n<h2>Rockies Prepare for First Spring Training Game<\/h2>\n<p>This Colorado Rockies team is already dealing with injuries, this year and they haven&#8217;t played a single minute out on the field yet. Rockies closer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bardda01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daniel Bard<\/a> tore his left meniscus preparing for Spring Training and will miss part of the regular season recovering from surgery. Luckily, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gilbrlu01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lucas Gilbreath<\/a> is coming back to the team this season after he underwent Tommy John surgery last March. Other pitchers like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/marquge01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German Marquez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/senzaan01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antonio Senzatela<\/a> will not be able to appear on the mound until the second half of the season. This <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/02\/03\/colorado-rockies-unpredictable-pitching\/\" target=\"_self\">unpredictable pitching rotation<\/a> must prove the doubters wrong this season.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this is a Rockies team trying to rebuild, but one of the best ways a rebuild goes by faster is if all the cornerstone pieces continuously play with one another and build a unique and special bond. This next month of exhibition games can be a success if this Colorado team does not get banged up with injuries. While the regular season is a much different ball game, especially competing in a loaded NL West Division, this young Rockies team can learn a thing or two during Spring Training. You catch the Rockies&#8217; first look at Spring Training action against last year&#8217;s NL champions today at 3:10 EST\/ 12:10 PST.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credits: Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring Training is finally here! Which means we are closer to the start of the 2024 MLB regular season! Today, we&#8217;ll see the Colorado Rockies play their first Spring Training game of the year. The Rockies will face last year&#8217;s National League champions, the Arizona Diamondbacks. This season will be the 30th anniversary of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4893,"featured_media":66829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1071,35],"tags":[3868,106,3937,3867,5627],"class_list":["post-66823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rockies","category-mlb","category-news","tag-antonio-senzatela","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-daniel-bard","tag-german-marquez","tag-lucas-gilbreath"],"modified_by":"Evan Mazza, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}