Rumfield's Two-Run Blast Breaks Tie, Colorado Holds Off Baltimore

TJ Rumfield's 404-foot home run to right center in the seventh inning swung Colorado's win probability from 62% to 87% and broke a 2-2 tie for good. Colorado defeated Baltimore 4-2, with three different Rockies hitters going deep on the night.

Colorado wasted no time putting pressure on Kyle Bradish. In the second inning, Adael Amador launched a 396-foot shot to right to put the Rockies up 1-0, and Jake McCarthy followed with a single to center that scored Veen, pushing the lead to 2-0. Bradish finished his outing with 5.0 innings pitched, allowing 6 hits and 2 earned runs against 4 strikeouts — a serviceable line, but the early hole he dug looked like it might be enough to sink Baltimore.

The Orioles clawed back. A Henderson groundball double play in the third scored Narváez to make it 2-1, and then Jackson Holliday — who finished 3-for-5 on the night — crushed a 401-foot home run to right in the seventh to knot the game at 2-2. Holliday's night was the one genuine bright spot in Baltimore's lineup, and the story of the game appeared to be heading toward a tense late-inning battle. Gabriel Hughes exited after 4.2 innings having allowed 1 earned run, and Jordan Romano came on and was dominant, throwing a perfect inning with 2 strikeouts to keep Colorado's lead intact heading into that pivotal seventh.

Then Rumfield ended it. With Moniak aboard, Rumfield put a 404-foot drive into right center that cleared the bases and made it 4-2 — the swing that moved Colorado's win probability from 62% to 87% in a single at-bat. That two-run shot was the decisive blow, and Josh Walker's 1.0 inning of relief for Baltimore — allowing 2 hits but no runs — was ultimately too little, too late. Colorado's offense spread the damage across the lineup: McCarthy went 2-for-5 with an RBI, Brett Sullivan went 2-for-3, and Amador finished 2-for-4 with his homer. The Rockies look like a team that can manufacture runs from multiple spots in the order, and on this night, that depth was the difference.