On Sunday afternoon in Denver, the Yankees and Rockies met up to see who would win their Memorial Day weekend series. The 9-43 Rockies haven’t won a single series during their entire 2025 to date, but they gave themselves a chance by surprising the Yanks on Friday in a 3-2 victory. Saturday looked to be competitive as well until the fifth inning, when the Yankees erupted for 10 runs and never looked back, evening things up.

Sunday’s contest offered a little bit of both. The Yankees scored first (as they did on Friday), but rookie righty Will Warren appeared to struggle while getting acclimated to pitching at altitude at Coors Field, and the Rockies quickly plated two runs in the first. Frankly, Warren was fortunate to limit the damage, as a nice play from shortstop Anthony Volpe ended the frame, with replay overturning an infield hit that would’ve made it 3-1, Colorado, while keeping the inning alive.

Rockies starter Antonio Senzatela allowed another run in the second on a Volpe triple and a double by J.C. Escarra, but he settled in during his second time through the batting order. Warren also looked far more comfortable after the first, retiring 9 of the next 10 hitters he faced. Come the fifth, the Yankees were looking to do damage again, as they did on Saturday in that same frame. With one down, Paul Goldschmidt and Ben Rice both reached to knock Senzatela out, and Aaron Judge greeted reliever Jake Bird with an RBI double.

Jasson Domínguez then lifted a sacrifice fly to push the Yankees’ lead to 4-2, but it started to absolutely pour in Denver during his plate appearance. It continued as Volpe worked the count to 3-2 against Bird, at which point umpiring crew chief Andy Fletcher decided that enough was enough. On came the tarp, freezing the game.

Just to play amateur meteorologist for a moment, we might be stuck in this delay for awhile. The rain’s not supposed to let up in Denver anytime soon.

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Since the game was still in the top of the fifth, it is not an official ballgame. So they will need to finish this frame, at the very least. The Yankees and Rockies are going to do everything in their power to get this in at some point on Sunday since the Yanks will not be back in Colorado at all for the remainder of 2025 and for as lovely as I find Denver, I can’t imagine there’s much interest in suspending it and taking a short day trip there to finish it out later in the year. (Note that MLB rules would call for a suspension and not just a cancelled game.)

I expect this game will continue. It just might take a minute, and Warren will almost certainly be gone from the ballgame for New York after the long delay. There’s a lot of time left in Sunday, so hang tight.