DENVER -- Breaking your arm is never fun. But for 7-year-old Daniel Brockman, it couldn't have come at a better time.

Daniel was playing basketball Monday night when he fell and broke his arm in several places. After surgery at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center, Dr. Laurel Benson asked him what kind of cast he wanted.

She offered him casts featuring superheroes like Batman and Spiderman, but Daniel didn't seem interested. Then his dad said she said the magic words. She offered him a Rockies cast.

"His eyes lit up," dad Mark Brockman told 7NEWS. "He was like 'Yeah, I want a Rockies cast.'"

Benson hopes the cast gives him something to show his friends.

"He's going to be in that cast for four weeks," she said. "So hopefully it makes him feel special and he gets to show off his love for the Rockies."

The Brockman family doesn't have tickets to any of the Rockies upcoming playoff games, so they'll be watching from their home in Castle Rock.