Colorado opens the final weekend in Chicago on Sept. 25, with Tomoyuki Sugano (12-11, 5.36 ERA) due to face Sean Burke (10-7, 3.40). A win would make Sugano the Rockies’ first 13-game winner since 2018; Colorado enters on a four-game skid.
Colorado is 14-35 over the last two months, including 5-16 in September. Sugano last held Seattle to one run and one hit over five innings, with five strikeouts; Burke has allowed one earned run over 16⅔ innings in his other three September starts, apart from a rough outing in Pittsburgh. Chicago is one game behind Cleveland in the AL Central.
Hunter Goodman is one home run short of 40, T.J. Rumfield is batting .297 with a chance to finish his first major-league season at .300, and Jake McCarthy is two triples short of 15. First pitch is scheduled for 5:40 p.m. MDT on Rockies.TV.
