Colorado Rockies at Arizona Diamondbacks: Final Score & Recap
Line Score
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| COL | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 0 |
| AZ | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 1 |
The Story
The Colorado Rockies handed the Arizona Diamondbacks a 6-4 defeat at Chase Field on August 12, 2026, overcoming a pre-game DiamondIQ model estimate that gave the home side a 66 percent chance of winning. Colorado scored all six of its runs in just two innings, erupting for four in the second and adding two more in the fourth, while Arizona's offense could never fully answer against a Rockies pitching staff that controlled the critical moments throughout the night. Colorado finished with eight hits and no errors, while Arizona stranded numerous opportunities despite collecting eleven hits of their own.
The second inning proved to be the game's defining stretch. Brett Sullivan's home run off Merrill Kelly in the top half shifted win probability by 13.2 percentage points in Colorado's favor, representing the single largest positive swing of the game for either team's offense. Arizona's Ryan Waldschmidt then compounded the damage by striking out to end the bottom of the second against Ryan Feltner, a sequence the DiamondIQ model valued at a 12.8-point swing against the Diamondbacks. The seventh inning offered Arizona its clearest path back, as Ildemaro Vargas drew a walk off Jimmy Herget that moved the needle 11.4 points toward a D-backs comeback, but Waldschmidt immediately erased that momentum by grounding into a double play, the single most damaging play of the night at negative 22.3 percentage points for Arizona.
Ryan Feltner was the game's most impactful individual performer, generating a model-leading 21.5 percent in WPA on the mound, while Jimmy Herget added 9.8 percent in relief despite the Vargas walk. Among position players, Corbin Carroll led Arizona's side with 10.3 percent WPA, but it was Sullivan's 9.2 percent contribution and Jake McCarthy's 8.9 percent that anchored Colorado's effort. Geraldo Perdomo's lineout to end the ninth off Jordan Romano, a 12.0-point swing in Colorado's direction, served as a fitting final punctuation on a night when Arizona's offense arrived too late and too infrequently to overcome the early deficit.