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A day in the life of the Coors Field Grounds Crew
7/9/2026 | 1m 52sVideo has Closed Captions
A behind the scenes look at the gameday routine for the grounds crew at Coors Field
RMPBS took a behind the scenes look at what goes into maintaining Coors Field on game day with Mark Razum, the head groundskeeper.
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A day in the life of the Coors Field Grounds Crew
7/9/2026 | 1m 52sVideo has Closed Captions
RMPBS took a behind the scenes look at what goes into maintaining Coors Field on game day with Mark Razum, the head groundskeeper.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipWe have about 15 guys and they come in in various times of the day.
Myself and then there's three others that are full time.
We work year round and then the other eleven are part time.
My name is Mark Razum, I am the head groundskeeper for the Colorado Rockies here at Coors Field.
I started in 1994, so I've been here for 32 years.
I have school teachers, I have Parks and Rec guys that come.
It's just a whole hodgepodge.
[Music] In this job, If you don't like baseball, you're not going to really like the job.
For a night game, we start about ten in the morning.
Before the game, we would be mowing the field, go through some of the watering to help you know, settle the soil.
The moisture, the water, kind of helps slow the ball down on the dirt areas.
Like I said, the water is kind of the glue of that clay and we just want that cushion-y, you know, soft.
And that's always been a thing that players have looked for.
We'll go through a series of preparing the clay, the pitcher's mound, clay.
There's certain specifications that the mound has to stay into a certain angle of the pitcher's mound, that we have to make sure that we're in compliance with the league's specifications on that.
Going through a series of waterings, and rakings, and on the infield dirt.
Kind of go through a manicure of everything, get everything smoothed out again for the game, you know, put down our foul lines and batters boxes and get the game going.
And then after the game, go through our irrigation cycle that night and then start it all over the next day.
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