Led by Nolan Arenado and Charlie Blackmon, the Rockies are defying expectations that 2020 would be a lost season in Colorado.

Standing alone in the expanse of right field these past few weeks, surrounded by rows and rows of empty seats, the Rockies’ Charlie Blackmon has come to appreciate the quirks of sports in 2020.

“It’s kind of a really intimate baseball game,” Blackmon says. “If Nolan makes a great barehanded play, I can be like, ‘Great job, Nolan!’ and he can hear you. There’s nobody else there, so you’re just playing for your teammates and we are having a great time doing that.”

Crouched at third base, within earshot of guests at home and teammates on the road, Nolan Arenado has reached a different conclusion.

“I don’t like that part at all,” says Arenado. “You can hear the other dugout chirp. You can hear your dugout chirp. I don’t