Hottest year ever update: After an overnight snowstorm brought around a foot of snow to Denver, about a thousand fans watch a major league baseball game in what the New York Times calls "almost farcical cold"

Before Mets-Rockies, Everybody Grabs a Snow Shovel - NYTimes.com

An overnight snowstorm brought around a foot of snow to downtown Denver, and as few as five hours before Juan Nicasio of the Colorado Rockies threw the first pitch to Jordany Valdespin of the Mets, there was barely a speck of green perceptible around Coors Field.
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But the immaculate field became the setting for several hours of unseemly baseball amid the almost farcical cold. The Rockies took the first game, 8-4, in front of about a thousand fans, and the second, 9-8 in 10 innings, in front of about twice as big a crowd.
...The Mets’ previous two games, the first of them in Minneapolis, were canceled, and the teams could not afford to have more scrapped games added to the slate over the summer. The urgency to play, then, created some of the more unusual sights seen inside a baseball stadium in recent memory.
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If the players seemed a half step slow during Game 1, they seemed utterly unnerved by Game 2, as the cold seemed to cause a collective implosion. The game featured 25 hits and was pocked by 15 total walks and 5 errors.