ARCHIVE April 26, 2026
April 26, 2026 · NL East

Colorado Rockies vs New York Mets

April 26, 2026Citi FieldPartly Cloudy 54°F · 9 mph, In From RF
AWAY
Colorado Rockies
12-16
3
vs
HOME
New York Mets
9-18
1

Starting pitchers

AWAY · COL
Jose Quintana
Jose Quintana
IP 5.1
HOME · NYM
Nolan McLean
Nolan McLean
IP 5

Lineups

AWAY · COL
  1. 1 Edouard Julien 2B
  2. 2 Mickey Moniak RF
  3. 3 TJ Rumfield DH
  4. 4 Troy Johnston 1B
  5. 5 Kyle Karros 3B
  6. 6 Brett Sullivan C
  7. 7 Ezequiel Tovar SS
  8. 8 Jake McCarthy CF
  9. 9 Jordan Beck LF
HOME · NYM
  1. 1 Bo Bichette SS
  2. 2 Juan Soto DH
  3. 3 Luis Robert Jr. CF
  4. 4 Mark Vientos 1B
  5. 5 Marcus Semien 2B
  6. 6 Brett Baty 3B
  7. 7 Tyrone Taylor RF
  8. 8 Tommy Pham LF
  9. 9 Luis Torrens C

Box score

  123456789 R
COL 000101100 3
NYM 000010000 1

Manager comparison

Both managers grade C / D+ entering this matchup.

AWAY · COL
Warren Schaeffer
C Lineup 1.5 R Bunts 0.9 R IBBs 1.9 R
HOME · NYM
Carlos Mendoza
D+ Lineup 2.9 R Bunts 1.4 R IBBs 0.9 R

Recent form

AWAY · COL
3-6 W2 -7 run diff
WWL?LLLLLW
HOME · NYM
5-4 L1 +2 run diff
LW?WWLWLLW

Season series: 4-2 with COL listed first across 8 prior meetings.

Tactical analysis

RunsLeft separates manager decisions from player execution from game variance. Each card below is the same three-number framework that drives the share cards on the SPA replay page.

AWAY · Colorado Rockies
  • Manager lineup cost +0.07 R/G Optimal arrangement projects 3.08 vs actual lineup 3.01
  • Player execution −0.01 R/G Players fell 0.01 short of the lineup's 3.01 projection (scored 3)
  • Game variance −0.08 R/G Total game outcome vs optimal expectation

Rumfield 0-for-3 batting 3rd

HOME · New York Mets
  • Manager lineup cost −0.10 R/G Optimal arrangement projects 4.46 vs actual lineup 4.56
  • Player execution −3.56 R/G Players fell 3.56 short of the lineup's 4.56 projection (scored 1)
  • Game variance −3.46 R/G Total game outcome vs optimal expectation

Soto 0-for-3 batting 2nd

COUNTERFACTUAL

Optimal lineups projected 3.1 – 4.5 — actual was 3 – 1.

Keep reading

How RunsLeft analyzes games

Standard content on this page comes from the MLB Stats API. Tactical analysis comes from a per-game Monte Carlo: 10,000 simulated games against the opposing starter's ERA, both for the actual lineup the manager wrote and for the optimal arrangement of those nine players. The three numbers — manager cost, player execution, game variance — separate which part of the result was the lineup, the players, or the dice.

Read the full methodology.