Robert Michael Ojeda (born December 17, 1957) is an American former professional baseball player, coach and television sports color commentator.

He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a left-handed pitcher from 1980 to 1994, most notably as a member of the New York Mets, with whom he won a world championship in 1986.

He also played for the Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians and the New York Yankees.

Ojeda was the lone survivor of a March 22, 1993, boating accident that killed fellow Cleveland Indians players Steve Olin and Tim Crews.

Ojeda started the 33rd when play was resumed two months later and got credit for the win when Pawtucket won in the bottom of the inning after eighteen minutes.

Ojeda compiled a 12-9 record with a 2.13 ERA in 1981 for Pawtucket, and was voted the International League Most Valuable Pitcher of the year.

[6] Ojeda pitched so well out of the bullpen that he was moved back into the rotation at the end of May, but his ERA again ballooned over four, prompting the Red Sox to trade him after the season.

The eight-player trade seemed minor at the time, but would have repercussions the following year, as it sent Ojeda to the New York Mets and Calvin Schiraldi to the Red Sox.

Despite starting in the bullpen and then being only the fourth starter, he finished with an 18–5 record, 2.57 ERA (second-best in the league) and 148 strikeouts – all career-bests.

His lone blemish occurred off the field when, on July 19, he and teammates Ron Darling, Rick Aguilera, and Tim Teufel were arrested outside a bar in Houston, Texas for fighting with security guards (who were also off-duty police officers).

The Mets recovered to tie the game in the ninth, and won in sixteen innings to earn a trip to the World Series.

While the Mets won the NLCS in six games, the Red Sox had to overcome a three-games-to-one deficit to squeak by the California Angels in the 1986 American League Championship Series.

When the Red Sox scored again to take the lead, they turned to the pitcher they had traded Ojeda for, Calvin Schiraldi, to close out the World Series.

With the chance to close out the first Boston championship since 1918 slipping away, Red Sox manager John McNamara turned to reliever Bob Stanley, who allowed two more of Schiraldi's runners to score, as the game turned into a legendary Met comeback, and nightmare for Bill Buckner and the Red Sox.

This victory marked a point where Ojeda's luck would change, as he was involved in a bizarre incident wherein the tip of his left middle finger was severed by an electric hedge trimmer.

Ojeda was the only survivor of the accident, but suffered major head lacerations and sat out most of the season to recuperate both physically and mentally.

Ojeda maintained a private life after retiring until 2001, when he was hired as the pitching coach for the Mets A-level Brooklyn Cyclones.

[12] In 2008, Ojeda joined the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School baseball coaching staff as a pitching instructor.