DENVER — Colson Montgomery started thinking triple as soon as the ball hit the wall.
The Chicago White Sox shortstop’s long fly to right-center in the first inning kept carrying, then hit off the fence and took a high bounce.
“I was pretty much on second base when it hit the wall, so I just thought I’d keep going,” Montgomery said.
Montgomery made it to third for an RBI triple. It was the first hit and RBI of his major-league career.
The hit produced one of eight two-out runs for the Sox, who cruised to a 10-3 victory against the Colorado Rockies in front of a sellout crowd of 47,351 on Saturday at Coors Field.
Montgomery went 3-for-5 with the first-inning RBI triple and singles in the fourth and seventh innings in his second major-league game.
“Once I got the first one out of the way, I was like, ‘All right, now we’re just playing, now we’re just trying to win the game,’” Montgomery said. “The rest of the guys, (Lenyn) Sosa, (Mike) Tauchman, they started the game off hot, that’s why they’re at the top of the lineup. Our veterans, they set the tone early and it’s kind of easy to feed off of.”
Sosa had three hits — including a two-run home run — and four RBIs while Tauchman had three hits and one RBI as the Sox secured at least a series victory.
It’s their ninth series victory of 2025, matching last year’s mark according to the Sox.
The Sox (30-59) had a season-high 15 hits, including a 464-foot, two-run home run by Michael A. Taylor in the ninth.
“It seemed like everybody was feeling good,” manager Will Venable said. “For me, even before the game started this game was going to be about energy and focus the second day after we arrived really late (to Denver from Los Angeles). Hits give you energy, but even before that our guys were in a really good place.”
The production started in the first inning. Brooks Baldwin drove in Sosa with a two-out double. Baldwin then scored on Montgomery’s triple. Montgomery became the second Sox player since 2000 to triple for their first major-league hit. He joined Tyler Saldano, who accomplished the feat on July 11, 2015.
“He put some really good swings on pitches, quality at-bats,” Venable said. “Happy that he got his first knock.”
The Rockies scored twice in the bottom of the first, but the Sox responded with three in the second inning in the form of an RBI single by Tauchman and the home run by Sosa. All three runs came with two outs.
“The success today was just being patient as I’ve been the last couple of weeks,” Sosa said through an interpreter. “I was able to get a pitch that I wanted to hit.
“Just trying to slow the game down, be calm and when you have your pitch, be aggressive with your pitch.”
An RBI single by Josh Rojas — yes, with two outs — in the fifth stretched the lead to 6-2.
Sox starter Jonathan Cannon allowed two runs on eight hits with one strikeout and two walks in 5 1/3 innings for the win.
“(The Rockies were) really aggressive today, swung at a lot of pitches early in the count,” Cannon said. “We were able to take advantage of that.”
He displayed timely execution in the fifth after the Rockies placed runners on second and third with no outs. Hunter Goodman lined out to Montgomery, Jordan Beck popped out to Sosa at second base and Thairo Estrada grounded out to Montgomery.
“Just knowing they were swinging from the jump, put a little more emphasis on the execution of the pitch earlier in the count,” Cannon said. “Tough place to pitch, but I thought we did a good job of navigating around everything and getting out of some jams when we needed to.”
Reliever Jordan Leasure induced inning-ending double plays in the sixth and seventh.
“Just a great job by him,” Venable said.
The Sox weren’t done offensively.
Sosa drove in two more with a single in the eighth and Taylor added the lengthy two-run home run — which came with two outs in the ninth. It was the longest home run of the season for a Sox player.
“Just really proud of Michael, we’ve asked a lot of him,” Venable said. “Just an amazing job by him on both sides of the ball.”
Taylor was one of five Sox players with a multi-hit game.
“Offensively, it came from everywhere,” Venable said. “The two-out hitting was great. There was damage, good job of plate discipline. Just an overall great day.”
