MLB · Wednesday, Sep 23 · Result
Arizona score four in the first at Coors and hold on for a 5-3 win
The Diamondbacks needed this one and did not wait for it. Four runs in the top of the first, and the rest of the night was Colorado chasing. Merrill Kelly took the win.
The final
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 0 |
| COL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
Arizona put four on the board before Colorado came to bat. That was the game.
The Rockies got one back in the second and one in the third, then nothing for four innings. Both sides scored once in the eighth.
Eight hits to seven, and one Colorado error. The margin was the first inning and nothing else.
Final, line score and the pitching decisions from MLB’s schedule feed with linescore and decisions hydrated, read Thu, Sep 24, 5:45 AM PT.2 The innings above are checked against the stated final before this page is written: 5 and 3.
What the price did
The contract had not moved from 61 cents in the two hours since the desk locked. Four minutes after first pitch it ticked to 62, and seventeen minutes in it printed 92.
It gave twelve cents back when Colorado answered, sat in the seventies and eighties for two hours, then reached 99 in the ninth and closed there.
1,196,708 contracts traded on the Arizona side.
- 5:40 PM PT61¢First pitch. The price had not moved from 61 cents in the two hours since the desk locked.
- 5:57 PM PT92¢Arizona put four on the board in the first. Seventeen minutes after first pitch the contract printed 92 cents, and the desk sell order at 90 filled.
- 6:43 PM PT80¢Colorado answered in the second and third. The price gave back twelve cents.
- 7:34 PM PT95¢Arizona through six clean. The market stopped arguing.
- 8:06 PM PT99¢Ninth inning. The contract reached 99 cents and stayed there to the close.
Prices are one-minute Kalshi candles on KXMLBGAME-26SEP232040AZCOL-AZ, from the desk lock to the market close at Wed, Sep 23, 8:09 PM PT.1 The market finalised on the AZ side. 1,196,709 contracts traded.
How the desk did
Desk positions on this game
Graded on Kalshi settlement-
YES Arizona at 60¢, sell order at 90¢. Posted Sep 23, 2026, 3:20 PM PT.
Win +$44.84 on a $100 stake, fees in, +50.0% on the contract. Graded Sep 24, 5:40 AM PT, after Kalshi settled.
Every position was posted before first pitch. Each is graded on Kalshi's own trade history, fees included. A tail is a second desk writer taking the same contract after the first plan went up; it grades on its own entry. All desk records
Every position is graded on Kalshi’s own trade history with both fee legs counted, win or lose, and a miss is written the same size as a win. How we lock and grade
Sources
- Kalshi public API, market KXMLBGAME-26SEP232040AZCOL-AZ: settlement, and the one-minute candlesticks this page reads prices from. kalshi.com
- MLB schedule feed, game 824301, with linescore and decisions hydrated: the final, the innings, hits, errors and the pitching decisions. statsapi.mlb.com
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