Sullivan's Walk-Off Single Caps Wild 11th, Rockies Stun Baltimore 6-5
Brett Sullivan singled to left in the 11th inning, scoring Rumfield and Amador to flip the win probability from 23% to 100% and hand Colorado a 6-5 comeback win over Baltimore. The Rockies trailed 5-3 entering that final frame and needed every inch of it.
Baltimore looked like it had this one locked up early. Luis Robert Jr. doubled to right in the third, scoring Alonso and Holliday to push the Orioles to a 3-0 lead, and Trevor Rogers was dealing — 11 strikeouts over 6.2 innings, zero walks, just 2 earned runs allowed. That is a performance that wins most games. Tomoyuki Sugano gave up 3 earned runs across 6 innings for Colorado, and the Rockies spent the middle innings clawing back one run at a time: an infield single from Cole Carrigg in the fourth made it 3-2, then a Veen double to center in the ninth tied it at 3-3 and forced extras.
The 11th inning was chaos in the best possible way. Baltimore struck first — Basallo singled to left to score Robert Jr. for a 4-3 lead, then Blaze Alexander singled to center to score Taveras and make it 5-3. Alexander finished 3-for-5 with an RBI on the night, and it looked like Baltimore had finally put Colorado away. It had not. TJ Rumfield singled to left to score Norby, cutting it to 5-4, and then Sullivan — in his only plate appearance of the game — singled to left to score Rumfield and Amador. Just like that, 5-3 became 6-5 Colorado, and the win probability swung from 23% to 100% on a single swing.
The story of the night, it appears, is how thoroughly Rogers's effort was wasted. Eleven strikeouts with zero walks is a dominant line by any measure, and Baltimore's bullpen held long enough to take a two-run lead into the bottom of the 11th. Rico Garcia threw a clean inning of relief — 1 IP, 1 H, 0 ER — but the damage came after. Sullivan's 1-for-1, 2-RBI night off the bench looks like the kind of cameo that defines a September win. For Colorado, Carrigg went 3-for-5 with an RBI, Rumfield added 2 hits and an RBI, and McCarthy contributed 2 hits and a run scored. This was a full-roster effort from the Rockies, built on patience and opportunism rather than any single dominant performance. Baltimore will feel this one.