{"id":487682,"date":"2026-10-07T04:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T04:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/487682\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T04:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T04:46:09","slug":"dodgers-star-miguel-rojas-becomes-us-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/487682\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers star Miguel Rojas becomes US citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791348369_170_origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, October 7, 2026 3:36AM<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas has officially become a U.S. citizen.<\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Lynne Sladky<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas has officially become a U.S. citizen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Rojas, a native of Venezuela, took his citizenship test in Miami and passed during the Dodgers&#8217; bye week last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been playing professional baseball for a long time, and that gave me the opportunity to learn the culture, the country and I don&#8217;t take that for granted,&#8221; Rojas recently told reporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 37-year-old came to the United States when he was 16 years old. He is in his 13th season as a MLB player and has spent five seasons with the Dodgers, where he has become a two-time World Series champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Rojas is preparing to conclude his playing career and plans to retire after the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, October 7, 2026 3:36AM Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas has officially become a U.S. citizen. AP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[190471,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-487682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-190471","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}