MLB insider accidentally gave Dodgers fans a heart attack with erroneous suspension news

On Monday, Evan Drellich of The Athletic, best known for bombshell investigative reporting (he, along with Ken Rosenthal, broke the initial story of the Astros cheating scandal), tweeted that the Dodgers' Miguel Rojas had been suspended for 80 games for use of a banned substance.

The replies were instantaneous. "Take the rings back!" "Justice for the Blue Jays!" And so on. Dodgers' fans hearts sank to our stomachs. Was it possible that impossible homer in Game 7 of the World Series now had a massive asterisk next to it?

Less than two minutes later, Drellich deleted the tweet. Four minutes after the initial post, he issued a correction: Johan Rojas of the Phillies, not Miguel Rojas of the Dodgers — was being suspended for 80 games after testing positive for a banned substance.

That's...a big yikes. A huge yikes.

What was perhaps even more embarrassing for Drellich: Bob Nightengale, an insider known for making the most meme-able of typos or otherwise notable flubs (second only to Jon Heyman, maybe), was the one who actually issued the correct piece of news.

Evan Drellich of The Athletic made the mix-up of the century with Johan-Miguel Rojas PED gaffe

News of Johan Rojas using a banned substance is a few weeks old at this point, but it was his appeal of the suspension that failed today. Nightengale reported he tested positive for the substance Boldenone.

You have to feel a little bad for Drellich, who has never put a foot wrong before, but it's hard to believe that he didn't think he had the scoop of the century when falsely reporting that a member of the World Series Dodgers had tested positive for PED usage. Maybe double check with your sources before you tweet something like that?

It's easy for Dodgers fans to see the world we'd have to live in if Miguel had indeed been the one facing a suspension. If you thought Blue Jays fans were already unbearable, this would send them to another stratosphere, and the 2025 World Series would be another that online trolls would point to to try to delegitimize the Dodgers.

But the Dodgers' and Miguel Rojas' reputations — and the legitimacy of that game-tying homer — remains intact. Crisis averted, but man ... we were losing it for a few minutes there.