{"id":740031,"date":"2026-06-16T07:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/740031\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:37:08","slug":"miguel-rojas-pinch-hit-home-run-lifts-los-angeles-dodgers-to-victory-over-tampa-bay-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/740031\/","title":{"rendered":"Miguel Rojas\u2019 pinch-hit home run lifts Los Angeles Dodgers to victory over Tampa Bay Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Pinch-hitter Miguel Rojas<\/a> launched a tiebreaking homer in the seventh inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> erased an early deficit to beat the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> 4-3 on Monday night in the opener of a six-game homestand.<\/p>\n

Kyle Tucker<\/a> hit a three-run homer for the Dodgers and threw out a runner at the plate from right field. Kyle Hurt<\/a> (2-1) earned the win with a scoreless inning of relief, and Tanner Scott<\/a> retired the side in order in the ninth for his eighth save.<\/p>\n

Rojas batted for Alex Freeland<\/a> with one out in the seventh and sent the first pitch he saw from Steven Matz<\/a> (4-4) into the left-field stands to snap a 3-all tie. It was the Dodgers\u2019 first pinch-hit home run this season and the second of Rojas\u2019 career.<\/p>\n

Eric Lauer<\/a> allowed three runs over six innings for Los Angeles. He remains unbeaten in four starts since the Dodgers acquired him from the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> on May 17.<\/p>\n

Ryan Vilade<\/a> hit a two-run homer and Taylor Walls<\/a> executed a perfect safety squeeze for the Rays. Nick Martinez<\/a> gave up five hits and three runs over 5 1\/3 innings. He walked one and struck out six.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers climbed out of a 3-0 hole to hand the Rays their fourth loss in five games. Vilade hit a towering homer in the first inning and Walls extended the lead with a safety squeeze to score Austin Slater<\/a> in the second.<\/p>\n

Tucker tied it with one swing in the bottom half, pulling a full-count changeup from Martinez over right-field fence.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Rays RHP Drew Rasmussen<\/a> (6-2, 2.71 ERA) looks to extend his 14-inning scoreless streak Tuesday night. LHP Justin Wrobleski<\/a> (7-2, 2.95) starts for the Dodgers.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Pinch-hitter Miguel Rojas launched a tiebreaking homer in the seventh inning and the Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-740031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}