{"id":843762,"date":"2026-08-04T23:54:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/843762\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T23:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:54:25","slug":"dodgers-roster-ben-rortvedt-and-hunter-feduccia-activated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/843762\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers roster: Ben Rortvedt and Hunter Feduccia activated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Both Will Smith and Dalton Rushing are on the injured list, and Ben Rortvedt has come to the Dodgers rescue yet again, this time from not only off the 40-man roster but also from a different team. One day after the Dodgers\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truebluela.com\/dodgers-roster\/121186\/ben-rortvedt-trade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acquired Rortvedt from the New York Mets<\/a>, they selected him to the major league roster to catch Tarik Skubal\u2019s Dodgers debut on Tuesday night at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Hunter Feduccia, who was also acquired on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truebluela.com\/dodgers-roster\/121245\/hunter-feduccia-jack-suwinski-trade-dodgers-rays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in a separate trade with the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a>, was also recalled from Triple-A. Eliezer Alfonzo was optioned to Oklahoma City and Chuckie Robinson was designated for assignment on Tuesday, completing the full catching tandem swap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Last season with both Smith and Rushing sidelined, Rortvedt started 15 of the final 21 games of the regular season and also started the first four postseason games too, until Smith returned from his hand injury. Looks like it\u2019s going to be the same for now, at least for the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201dGiven what Ben did for us last year, us knowing him, him being with a lot of our guys, being more of a guy that\u2019s been around for a while,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SportsNetLA\/status\/2084427382296031306\" rel=\"nofollow\">manager Dave Roberts told reporters Monday in Chicago<\/a>, \u201cI could see him taking the lion\u2019s share for the foreseeable future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Rortvedt had been with Triple-A Syracuse all season, starting 39 games behind the plate. He hit .235\/.391\/.414 with six home runs in 167 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Feduccia this season started 51 games behind the plate for the Rays, and hit .234\/.306\/.340 with seven doubles and two home runs in 160 plate appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cIt\u2019s protecting the downside with the catching,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SportsNetLA\/status\/2084427382296031306\" rel=\"nofollow\">Roberts said Monday<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ve always liked [Feduccia], so obviously with the catching, losing Rush and not having Will back, kind of just making sure \u2014 coverage is important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Alfonzo started nine games and caught 74 innings for the Dodgers in his first stint in the major leagues. Robinson caught 59 innings and started six games behind the plate. Alfonzo had five hits, including two doubles in 27 at-bats, while Robinson had two singles in 23 at-bats this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both Will Smith and Dalton Rushing are on the injured list, and Ben Rortvedt has come to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":843763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,277033,591,85],"class_list":["post-843762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-los-angeles-dodgers-roster","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}