Rockies snap 11-game road losing streak as Goodman joins elite company

Rockies Report, Game 161:

ROCKIES BOTTOM LINE: Hunter Goodman completed the 10th 40-homer season by a catcher in major-league history with a solo blast in the third inning, and then he added a 3-run shot in the ninth inning to power the Rockies to a 9-3 win over the Chicago White Sox in the season’s penultimate game on Saturday night.

WATCH IT FLY!

GOODMAN WITH NUMBER 40! pic.twitter.com/fsx4W8cQG4

— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) September 26, 2026

The win allowed the Rockies to snap an 11-game road losing streak that dated back to August.

Goodman provided two haymakers, with Ezequiel Tovar adding a solo homer in the fourth as Colorado built a 5-1 lead. But it was the work in the first inning that allowed the Rockies to operate with a lead — something that has been rare in recent weeks.

Colorado had been shredded in the first inning in recent days, but the Rox turned the tables on that trend Saturday, as TJ Rumfield and Adael Amador delivered RBI singles, with Amador’s bringing in two runs as the Rox built a 3-0 lead before most of the Rate Field throng had settled into the seats.

Chicago pulled within 5-3, but a four-run outburst in the ninth allowed the Rox to put away the White Sox. With two out and two on, Cole Carrigg delivered a single to score Jordan Beck, who had led off the ninth with a double.

Then, after Chicago brought in Tyler Davis to relieve Bryan Hudson, Goodman fired his second home run of the ninth, this one just clearing the left-field wall.

As it turned out the Rockies needed those four ninth-inning runs — and Goodman’s three-run homer was the difference. Closer Jordan Romano entered in the ninth inning in a non-save situation and within the span of three pitches surrendered a three-run homer to Andrew Benintendi. The first baserunner, Tristan Peters, reached on a strike-three wild pitch, followed by a six-pitch walk to Miguel Vargas before Benintendi’s homer. Romano has endured a frustrating September; his earned-run average for the month is 8.31.

And with Goodman, the 41st homer brought him to a tie for fifth all-time in home runs by a catcher, trailing only Cal Raleigh (Seattle, 2025, 60), Salvador Perez (Kansas City, 2021, 48), Johnny Bench (Cincinnati, 1970, 45) and Javy López (Atlanta, 2003, 43). Goodman is now deadlocked with Todd Hundley (New York Mets, 1996) and Roy Campanella (Brooklyn, 1953).

Goodman also set a National League standard with 25 home runs on the road.

“An incredible feat by an incredible guy,” Rockies manager Warren Schaeffer said.

HUNTER AGAIN!

That's 41 on the season pic.twitter.com/w61FNFn47l

— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) September 27, 2026

Colorado improved to 58-103. The Rockies also eliminated the White Sox from contention for the AL Central title, locking the Southsiders into a wild-card game against the AL West winners.

ROCKIES STARTER’S REPORT

José Quintana made his second start since returning from a nearly-four-month absence due to an elbow injury, giving up two earned runs — both on solo homers, the only hits he yielded.

Schaeffer once again used Ryan Feltner as a piggy-back, and he delivered 3 2/3 innings in which he gave up just one run — and it was unearned after an Amador error cost the Rockies a chance at a double play.

But with two outs and Benintendi on second base, Feltner gave way to left-handed reliever Brennan Bernardino to face Munetaka Murakami, looking for his third home run of the series. He just missed, driving Bernardino’s second pitch to the right-center-field warning track — and no further for the third out. Bernardino then faced the minimum in the eighth inning, getting out of it by inducing a double play — started by Amador.

Feltner was given credit for the win.

BITS AND PIECES

IT WAS DECIDED FOR THE ROCKIES WHEN: Romano retired three-consecutive White Sox batters after yielding the three-run homer to Benintendi.

NUMBER TO NOTE: .300 — Rumfield’s batting average for the season after his RBI single, after which Schaeffer lifted him, moving Connor Norby to first base while inserting Kyle Karros into the lineup. “[That’s] something extremely special in this game,” Schaeffer said, adding that the move was planned if Rumfield got his average to .300.

WHAT’S NEXT: The regular-season finale — and quite possibly the last start for Kyle Freeland in a Rockies uniform. Anthony Kay gets the ball for the White Sox. First pitch is scheduled for 1:10 p.m. MDT.

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