The Dodgers hit four home runs in a 10-1 win, including Rojas’ first in more than a year, Heyward’s first off a left-handed pitcher since May 2021 and Amed Rosario’s first since joining the Dodgers…
LOS ANGELES — For 401 days during which he played in 156 games and went to home plate 549 times, Miguel Rojas lived life like most of us do – without hitting a home run in a major-league game.Rojas’ first home run since last June 26 was just one of the rarities dropped off by the woebegone A’s goodwill tour of big-league ballparks. Jason Heyward also hit his first home run off a left-handed pitcher since May 2021 as part of a 10-1 victory for the Dodgers on Wednesday night.
The Dodgers have outscored the A’s – equally awful at their soon-to-be-vacated home and on the road – by a 17-4 margin in winning the first two games of this series. Every player in the Dodgers’ starting lineup Wednesday had at least one of their 13 hits except Max Muncy, who walked twice. The Dodgers wasted no time putting the A’s out of their nightly misery Wednesday. The first three batters in the bottom of the first inning reached base and all worked their way around to score. Ten of the first 14 Dodgers batters reached base. Seven of them scored before there were two outs in the second inning. Amed Rosario’s first home run as a Dodger made it a 7-0 headstart.
Mookie Betts had a double and a home run in his first two at-bats then took the rest of the night off. The home run was a 436-foot drive, the longest Betts has hit with the Dodgers and such a no-doubter that A’s left fielder Tony Kemp never moved, not even turning around to watch its contrail. Freddie Freeman had hits in each of the first three innings, extending a streak of seven consecutive at-bats with hits. He also called it a night early.Rojas’ homer was a modest 383-foot fly ball that dropped just over the wall in left field. Heyward’s 11th home run of the season was a louder affair, leaving the bat at 104.8 mph and landing 406 feet away in the right field pavilion. It came on the first pitch he saw from lefty reliever Kirby Snead in the sixth inning.
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