TORONTO — Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas was leaving the team hotel Saturday for World Series Game 7 when his wife, Mariana, left him with a kiss and a message: “You’re going to hit a home run today.”
Rojas chuckled. Mariana had told him the same thing yesterday. Actually, she had done so almost every day since the Dodgers clinched the National League pennant after he let slip to her, “I want to hit a home run in the World Series.”
Rojas did not have a hit in 31 days, partly because he went 25 days without starting, a period in which he would respond to Mariana’s message by saying, “How am I going to do that? I’m not playing.”
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