The position of shortstop comes with a lot of responsibilities.
Play-by-play announcer isn't usually one of them, but the Dodgers' Miguel Rojas smoothly handled both live coverage and a sharply hit ground ball Sunday at Dodger Stadium.
Rojas was wearing a microphone for ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball broadcast and speaking with the announcers, telling a story about teammate Kiké Hernández, when the Giants' Thairo Estrada smacked a ground ball in his direction in the second inning.
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The shortstop apologized as he deftly stepped to his left, fielded the ground ball on a hop and tossed it to first base for an out.
"Sorry, guys, I need to make this play real quick," Rojas said.
Rojas was acquired by the Dodgers in an off-season trade. He was expected to be a utility player, but an injury to Gavin Lux required him to play a larger role as a starter.
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"I got a great opportunity to be in the same locker room and same field with a lot of great players, and learning from Martín Prado and Adrían González and all of those guys early in my career helped me to change myself into not just a baseball player but a leader," Rojas said during the broadcast.
The Dodgers won Sunday's game 3-2 in dramatic style with a single in the 10th by Chris Taylor to score the winning run.
