The Dominican Winter League is ending its regular season and the semifinal series is taking place. Rodgers plays for Estrelas Orientales. Rodgers took the mound as the starting pitcher in the game against Leones del Escohido on the 5th, and became the winning pitcher with six hits and three strikeouts and no outs in five innings. Estrelas Orientales won 3-0.
In the first inning, he caught the leadoff hitter out by hitting a fly ball to the right field and allowed Hector Rodriguez to hit a double. He threw a wild pitch against Yamaico Navarro, who once played for Samsung, and the runner advanced to second base. Navarro then advanced to first base due to shortstop error, and was on the verge of hitting first and third bases with one out. 안전 토토사이트
Rodgers struck out Franmil Reyes, who had 108 home runs in the Major League, and blocked Navarro, the first baseman, from stealing second base, preventing the crisis without losing a point. With the team leading 1-0, the team finished with three batters in the second inning. He grounded out to the third base to get a hit to the right. With one out and a runner on the first base, he finished the inning with a double play.
It was a crisis again in the third inning. He got a hit to the left field by the first batter, but managed to get one out by hitting a fly ball to the second base. He also allowed a hit to the left field, putting him at risk with one out and runners on the first and second bases. He grounded out to the catcher’s ball to the second and third bases with two outs, and sent Navarro over the crisis with a fly ball to the right field.
He pitched a clean sheet with three outs in the fourth inning. He gave up three batters with three strikeouts, a grounder to the third base, and a grounder to the shortstop. He got a hit to the center field with one out in the fifth inning, but managed to garner two outs due to a fly ball to the right field. He was on the verge of allowing a hit to the center field with two outs and runners on the first and third bases, but he blocked the batter until the fifth inning with no loss due to three strikeouts.
In the top of the sixth inning, Estrelas Orientales added two more runs to make it 3-0, and in the bottom of the sixth inning, Rogers was replaced by a bullpen pitcher. On Dec. 31, the first game of the semifinal series, Rogers allowed five hits, five strikeouts, and one run in five innings against Del Eskoh. He has one win, no loss, and a 0.90 ERA in two games of the semifinal series.
Rodgers played for Toros del Este in the Dominican Winter League regular season, going 3-3 with a 3.31 ERA in 10 games (49 innings) and playing for Estrelas Orientales in the semifinal series.
Rogers made his KBO league debut against LG on August 6, 2015, and recorded a complete game with nine innings (116 pitches) and three hits, seven strikeouts, and one run. He pitched a complete game against KT in the KBO league as the first foreign pitcher. Then, on August 11, he pitched a complete game against KT in nine innings (108 pitches) with three hits and seven strikeouts. His second consecutive complete game since his debut is the first in the KBO. Rogers recorded six wins, two losses and a 2.97 ERA in 10 games. He pitched three shutouts.
Rodgers renewed his contract with the Hanwha Eagles, recorded two wins, three losses and a 4.30 ERA in six games in 2016, and was released due to injury. He returned to the KBO League after signing a contract with the Nexen Heroes in 2018, and was released due to injury after recording five wins and four losses with a 3.80 ERA in 13 games.