Whicker: Rockies’ starting pitchers are suddenly at home on the range

LOS ANGELES — Kyle Freeland’s high school field was a mile high, too.
“Except it was a pretty big park,” he said. “The power alleys were 375, 380 and dead center was about 400. It was kind of a graveyard, actually.
“I didn’t really think about it. I wound up having pretty good success.”
That was Jefferson High in Denver. Freeland went to the University of Evansville and pitched well enough to get picked eighth in the first round of the 2014 draft &