Colorado Rockies at Chicago White Sox: Final Score & Recap

The Colorado Rockies defeated the Chicago White Sox 9-6 at Rate Field on September 26, 2026, overcoming a team that entered the game as heavy favorites. The DiamondIQ model's estimate gave Chicago a 69% pre-game win probability, but that figure collapsed to 0% by the final out as Colorado seized control with a four-run ninth inning after the teams played a scoreless middle stretch through the fifth and sixth frames.

The decisive sequence unfolded in the bottom of the eighth, where the game's biggest swing in win probability occurred on a single play. Colson Montgomery's ground ball into a double play off Brennan Bernardino erased 26.2% of Chicago's win probability in an instant, effectively sealing the outcome before the Rockies even took the field for their final at-bats. Bernardino's eighth-inning work was the most impactful pitching performance of the night by WPA at plus 18.7%, though the inning was not without tension — Kyle Teel's single added 13.0% for the White Sox, and Chase Meidroth's double contributed 12.4%, before Sam Antonacci's strikeout dropped Chicago another 12.6%. Colorado's three-run first inning, punctuated by Randal Grichuk's pop out that cost the White Sox 11.7% in win probability, set an early tone that Chicago never fully answered.

Among position players, Meidroth led all batters with a plus 18.7% WPA and a plus 0.5 RE24, while Cole Carrigg contributed plus 13.6% WPA and a team-best plus 1.0 RE24. Teel added plus 11.8% WPA in a losing effort for Chicago. On the mound, Jose Quintana posted plus 15.4% WPA and Ryan Feltner contributed plus 8.3% in support of Bernardino's dominant relief showing, as Colorado's pitching staff combined to neutralize a White Sox offense that managed eight hits but could not generate enough in the moments that mattered most.