Colorado Rockies at Chicago White Sox

· Major League Baseball

Colorado Rockies

58-103, 26-54 Away

Final
9 - 6

Chicago White Sox

83-78, 47-33 Home

White Sox lose 9-6 to Rockies, end chances of winning AL Central

Colorado Rockies vs Chicago White Sox: Game Highlights

The White Sox needed to beat the Rockies to stay alive in the division race after the Cleveland Guardians won 11-5 at Kansas City on Saturday to take a two-game lead on the season's penultimate day.

Chicago will be the final AL wild card and will play on the road against the AL West winner in a three-game Wild Card Series beginning Tuesday. The race between the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros for the West crown will come down to the season's last day.

Chicago is the first team to earn a playoff berth after consecutive 100-loss seasons.

The Rockies won for just the fourth time in 21 games. They improved to a major league-worst 58-103 after losing a club-record 119 last season.

The White Sox led or were tied for first in the AL Central from July 4 until Sept. 16.

Ryan Feltner (7-10) gave up three hits in 3 2/3 innings in relief for Colorado.

The Rockies went ahead 3-0 in the first. Davis Martin (9-8) committed a fielding error before allowing three singles, a walk and two earned runs while recording just two outs.

Goodman homered off Noah Schultz in the third, becoming the first Rockies player to hit 40 homers since Nolan Arenado in 2019. Ezequiel Tovar added his 13th homer in the fourth to make it 5-2. Goodman added a three-run shot in the Rockies’ four-run ninth.

Andrew Benintendi hit a three-run homer in the ninth for Chicago. Brenton Doyle and Luisangel Acuña also homered.

The White Sox had their chances. They put runners at the corners in the sixth, but Feltner struck out pinch hitter Colson Montgomery to end the inning. Montgomery extended the season record for strikeouts to 225.

Up next LHP Anthony Kay (9-9, 4.53 ERA) is set to start for the White Sox in Sunday’s regular season finale. LHP Kyle Freeland (4-11, 6.58) will pitch for Colorado.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Meidroth grounded out to third.
	9th Inning	Murakami popped out to third.
	9th Inning	Grichuk struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Benintendi homered to right (394 feet), Peters scored and Vargas scored.
	9th Inning	Vargas walked, Peters to second.
	9th Inning	Peters struck out, Peters to first on wild pitch by Romano.

Statistics

COL		CHW
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
14	Ground Balls	8
8	Strikeouts	9
9	Runs Batted In	6
1	Sacrifice Hit	0
11	Hits	8
0	Stolen Bases	1
2	Walks	5
0	Catcher Interference	0
9	Runs	6
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
37	At Bats	36
3	Home Runs	3
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
10	Runners Left On Base	15
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	1
2	Doubles	1
16	Fly Balls	19
0	Caught Stealing	0
141	Pitches	151
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	3
1	Pinch Hits	1
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	1
22	Total Bases	18
40	Plate Appearances	41
486.0	Projected Home Runs	486.0
5	Extra Base Hits	4
6.8	Runs Created	5.8
.297	Batting Average	.222
1.000	Pinch Hit Average	.333
.595	Slugging Percentage	.500
.351	Secondary Average	.444
.333	On Base Percentage	.317
.928	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.817
0.9	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.4
6.6	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	5.4
60.0	Batter Rating	44.0
12.3	At Bats Per Home Run	12.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.53	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.68
.297	Isolated Power	.278
0.25	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.56
.050	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.122
.054	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.222
18.0	Runs Produced	12.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.2
102.3	MLB Rating	89.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0