The Dodgers won 3-0 against the Chicago White Sox of the 2024 Major League Baseball at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago, Illinois, on the 25th (Korean time) and recorded two consecutive wins.
Recently, Dodgers has a strange law. In a game where Miguel Rojas hits a hit, Dodgers will win. Since his debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2014, Rojas played 85 games and was sluggish with a batting average of 0.181 OPS of 0.463, before switching to the Miami Marlins through a trade prior to the 2015 season. Rojas played in 870 games during eight seasons in MyDami alone, recording 707 hits, 38 home runs, and a batting average of 0.265 OPS of 0.684.
Rojas, who had been with Miami for a long time, will return to the Dodgers through a trade before the 2023 season. When Trey Turner, who was serving as the starting shortstop until the 2022 season, left for the Philadelphia Phillies, the Dodgers moved on. In 148 games last year, Rojas had 91 hits, five homers, 31 RBIs, 49 runs scored, and eight stolen bases, recording a batting average of 0.236 OPS of 0.612. As of the end of the game on Saturday, he played 48 games, recording 36 hits, three homers, 0.277 OPS of 0.750.
Rojas is continuing a strange record that leads to victory of the Dodgers in games where he hits this year. Rojas started the showdown with the St. Louis Cardinals on March 30, the opening series in the U.S. mainland, and recorded two hits (one home run) and an RBI and one run in three times at bat, and the Dodgers won at the time. Since then, the formula of “Lohas hit = Dodgers win” has continued. Rojas played in 17 games in April and had hits in seven games, and recorded eight consecutive wins as the Dodgers won all of them.
The record-setting streak didn’t stop. Rojas produced seven hits in May as well, and all of them smiled, and the Dodgers would record 22 wins and no losses in games in which Rojas had a hit until the showdown with the Los Angeles Angels on the 23rd. And Rojas started as shortstop and fifth batter again against the Chicago White Sox on the 25th, recording two hits and one run from four times at bat, and continued his 23rd win and no loss as the Dodgers won on the same day.
Entering his first at-bat in the top of the first inning with runners on the first and second bases with two outs, when the score was tied 0-0, Rojas stuck his bat out to a high-course cutter in the middle of White Sox starter Garrett Crochet’s sixth strike zone, but he left the game after being grounded out to the second base. The result at his first at-bat was not good, but Rojas’ bat soon exploded. He hit a hit off Crochet in his second at-bat as the leadoff batter in the top of the fourth inning. Up until then, the 0-0 trend continued, and it was Rojas’ third at-bat that he gained strength.
In the top of the seventh inning, Rojas was confronted by White Sox pitcher Stephen Wilson, and this time he turned his bat to a sweeper on a low course. The hit led to a double that went to the left-field line. The Dodgers got a run-scoring chance with Rojas’ double and Kikke Hernandez took the lead with one out and third base on Gavin Lux’s out-of-balance lead. Rojas didn’t produce a hit in the last at-bat since then, but the Dodgers mound pitched solidly until the ninth inning, not allowing a single run, leading to a 3-0 victory.
Manager Dave Roberts was also aware that the game in which Rojas had a hit necessarily led to the Dodgers’ victory. According to Japan’s Sponichi Annex, Roberts said, “Migi (Rohas nickname) is a great presence for us in ball and field. We have talked a lot about the energy Rojas brought, but he has shown it with hits every night. There is no evidence that Rojas has made 23 consecutive wins, but as long as he continues to make hits, it is very helpful to us. If Rojas is happy, we can win the baseball game. Rojas’ hit is leading his team in a good direction.” 토토사이트 모음
Rojas’ undefeated march also led to his team’s record in the Major League. No player has had more successive hits than Rojas. Sarah Reims of MLB.com reported that the Dodgers had 23 wins and no losses in a game in which Rojas had a hit, adding that Carlos Peña (20 games) had the longest winning streak when a certain player had a hit since 1900, and Rojas broke the record. Attention is focusing on how long Rojas’ record will last.