The Dodgers are World Series champions once again after pulling out a dramatic comeback against the Blue Jays in Game 7 at the Rogers Centre.
Trailing 4–3 heading into the ninth, the script was set for the Dodgers’ entire postseason hopes to come down to Shohei Ohtani, who was set to bat third in the inning. But before Shohei got to the plate, second baseman Miguel Rojas, batting out of the nine-hole, decided he’d rather handle things himself, and smacked a game-tying home run to left.
If you were surprised by this display of power from Rojas, you were not alone. Rojas had just seven dingers through the entire 2025 regular season, and has gone yard just 57 times through 12 seasons in the majors. But in the ninth inning with his team in need of a hero, he stepped up.
MIGUEL ROJAS JUST TIED THIS BASEBALL GAME 😤 https://t.co/UGCZw8VONa pic.twitter.com/CynKjm08WN
— MLB (@MLB) November 2, 2025
Mookie Betts, like Ohtani, is one of the stars on the Dodgers you might have thought would be more likely to turn up as the hero in the ninth. Talking after the game, Betts admitted that even he was stunned by Rojas’s big play.
“No shade to Miggy Rojas, but nobody is really expecting a homer with two outs from Miggy Rojas,” Betts told the Fox postgame desk. “And he did. It was one of those things. We believe in him, but we didn’t know about a homer, right? It’s just fitting. If you’re around a group of guys, you know who the mic guy is. The guy that’s on the mic to get everybody going. He’s our mic guy. For him to come up big, he’s like our glue.”
Baseball is a team sport, and every batter from the top to the bottom of the lineup has a role to play. It turns out that Rojas’s role in the nine-hole was even bigger than expected.
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