Miguel Rojas Claps Back at Fan on Social Media After Dodgers’ Game 3 Loss to Padres
Los Angeles Dodgers veteran shortstop Miguel Rojas heard the noise. After Tuesday’s heartbreaking loss to the San Diego Padres which moved the Dodgers one game closer to elimination, Rojas heard it all from the fans.
Rojas received a ton of criticism after his questionable defensive decision to keep the ball and tag second base by himself with Gavin Lux on the base in the bottom of the second inning. He discussed his decision after the game, but his comments on Instagram were quite different.
Rojas had enough and was blunt in his responses on Instagram to a fan.
“You think you guys are the only ones who wants to win this s—, every single one of the players and [people] in this clubhouse are doing everything to f—ing win,” Rojas wrote. “It’s not [because] of the f—ing effort we doing everything possible if that’s not enough to you guys I understand all you guys want is a victory after the final out. Nobody in this s— is lost we playing to win not to be the reason for the f—ing L.”
He continued: “Yeah one f—ing mental mistake I would I would [have] pass the ball and got one out but my f—ing sorry a– was trying to do everything possible to get two f—ing outs !!! Yeah I f—ed that decision up and you can blame the f—ing reason of the L.”
Rojas appeared to have had enough from Dodger fans about his play that led to a six-run inning by the Padres. While he made it known how he felt on social media, here’s what he said about the play to reporters after the game.
“On that play at second base when I tried to take it myself to the bag. I feel like I reached a little bit for the bag with my left leg, and it was a bad decision. I made a bad decision there for the play and for my health,” Rojas said after the game.
“I decided to stay, because I know how hard it is to get ready to come in and play defense in the middle of the game like that. And I decided to take that at-bat in the third to see how the leg was going to feel. When I was running the bases, rounding around second base and rounding around third, it didn’t feel great. We scored a couple runs there and got the game pretty close, so I gave the team the best opportunity to have everybody 100 percent.”
“I made a decision there that hurt me and hurt the team at the time,” he concluded. “Unfortunately, I have to deal with the consequences now.”
Rojas exited Game 3 after re-aggravating his groin injury in the third inning while rounding third base.
The veteran shortstop has been key for the Dodgers and arguably their best defensive infielder since rejoining the team in 2023. However, the decision to not toss the ball to Lux may have been the difference between possibly being up 2-1 and being on the brink of elimination.
Rojas is not in the lineup for Wednesday night’s do-or-die Game 4 in San Diego. The first pitch is at 6:08 p.m. PT.
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