Miguel Rojas Says Dodgers Noticed Drake’s Trash Talk To Shohei Ohtani—and It Backfired

Trolling is simply a portion of sports. Oftentimes, it's nan athletes doing it, but each truthful often, a personage will subordinate successful connected nan nosy successful nan sanction of supporting their favourite team. That's what Canadian rapper Drake did erstwhile he playfully trolled Dodgers two-way prima Shohei Ohtani successful nan midst of a thrilling, back-and-forth World Series that was yet won by Los Angeles successful 7 games.

Only, nan Dodgers didn't spot Drake's societal media posts arsenic playful trolling. As Dodgers Game 7 leader Miguel Rojas told TMZ successful an interview, Los Angeles perceived nan Canadian rapper's online jabs astatine Ohtani to beryllium disrespectful.

"... That [Drake's trolling] doesn't spell unnoticed," Rojas said. "When you benignant of disrespect—a small bit—the champion subordinate successful nan game. Not knowing nan value of nan personification and what nan feline has done for baseball. ... You don’t person to do that, man.”

What did Drake station astir Ohtani?

Drake decided to person a small societal media nosy astatine nan Dodgers‘ disbursal pursuing nan Blue Jays‘ Game 5 victory—in which Toronto starter Trey Yesavage dominated Los Angeles‘s lineup. The Canadian rapper took to Instagram and trolled Ohtani, who went 0-for-4 pinch a strikeout against Yesavage.

Rojas credited Yesavage for his superb pitching, but noted that successful nan Dodgers‘s eyes, Drake didn't person to spell location and troll Ohtani. The Dodgers infielder, who deed a game-tying location tally successful nan ninth inning of Game 7, explained that Drake's trolling is what prompted teammate Kiké Hernández to return a changeable astatine nan rapper during nan team's triumph celebration.

Hernández, during his reside astatine nan Dodgers‘ World Series parade, couldn't defy taking a not-so-subtle jab correct backmost astatine Drake, referencing 1 of Drake's songs, "Big Rings."

"...Playing nan astir games successful October for this franchise, for this really large squad that has a batch of really large rings," Hernández said.

Perhaps the Drake curse lives on?

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