Dodgers’ Santiago Espinal seizing opportunity to make Opening Day roster

GLENDALE, Ariz. — If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em – although for Santiago Espinal, his chance to impress in Dodgers camp this spring needed multiple twists of fate to come to fruition.

An organization known for its love of versatile defenders, as well as its ability to jumpstart or revive careers, appears to have another example of their handiwork in Espinal, who has more hits than outs in Cactus League play so far.

Espinal is not only 10 for 16 (.625) in seven spring games with the Dodgers...