DENVER -- A day after getting snowed out, the Florida Marlins and the Colorado Rockies saw their doubleheader Thursday postponed by rain.
The doubleheader was scheduled when heavy snow began falling in the second inning Wednesday night and caused that game to be wiped out.
Colorado third baseman Matt Holliday paced the clubhouse from the time the groundskeepers put the tarp back onto the field Thursday until the postponement was announced an hour before the scheduled first pitch of the opener. Rain was falling and the temperature was 37 degrees.
The doubleheader was rescheduled for Aug. 8, which had been an off day for both teams.
"I'm ready to play," Holliday said. "I wanted to play."
Holliday went right to the video room and began preparation for Odalis Perez, the scheduled starter for the Dodgers on Friday, when the Rockies open a series in Los Angeles.
"He is a smart young man," Colorado manager Clint Hurdle said. "And a very mature one."
Holliday is hitting .321 with four triples and 14 RBI. Last year, he batted .290 with 14 home runs and 57 RBI.
"I'm maturing as a hitter, one that has gotten out away from the mode of trying to pull everything," Holliday said. "Today I stay back and look for pitches away especially when I fall behind in the count and you expect to see breaking balls away."
Holliday's progress helped allow the Rockies to trade Larry Walker to St. Louis.
"He's a smart hitter and become a good two-strike hitter," Hurdle said. "And he becoming a better fielder."
