Washington Nationals at Colorado Rockies: Final Score & Recap

The Washington Nationals shut out the Colorado Rockies 8-0 at Coors Field on July 22, 2026, handing Colorado a loss the DiamondIQ model's estimate made increasingly certain as the game progressed, with the Rockies' pre-game win probability of 43 percent collapsing to zero by the final out. Washington's offense was largely quiet through the first four innings before Jorbit Vivas broke the seal with a triple off Gabriel Hughes in the top of the fifth, a play that shifted win probability by 10.7 percentage points in the Nationals' favor. The decisive blow came in the seventh inning, when Nasim Nuñez's single off Jimmy Herget moved the needle by 17.8 percentage points — the single largest win-probability swing of the game — and Luis García Jr. followed with a home run off the same pitcher for an additional 10.8-point swing, turning what had been a tense one-run game into an insurmountable 7-0 advantage as Washington scored six times in the frame.

Cade Cavalli was the pitching anchor for Washington, finishing as the game's top performer by WPA at plus-26.8 percent, with Brennan Bernardino contributing plus-10.0 percent despite surrendering a costly CJ Abrams strikeout in the sixth that briefly cost the Nationals 8.6 percentage points, and Gabriel Hughes adding plus-8.7 percent. Colorado's defense compounded its pitching difficulties by committing three errors, while Washington's 14 hits against six for the Rockies illustrated the offensive disparity. Nuñez led all batters with a WPA of plus-10.5 and an RE24 of plus-1.1, while García Jr. and Vivas each posted an RE24 of plus-1.3 alongside WPA marks of plus-8.4 and plus-7.1 respectively, rounding out a performance in which the DiamondIQ model favors the Nationals as the clear and dominant force on the afternoon.