The ritual after big victories is long-standing and familiar. It calls for beer and champagne.

But the Dodgers have created a tradition of their own for the small victories that come along the way — and it calls for tequila.

For two years now, each time the Dodgers have won a series — something they had done for seven consecutive series before their current six-game losing streak put the tequila on ice — the players gather in the clubhouse, infielder Miguel Rojas recaps the highlights of the series, picks a series MVP and the players down shots of tequila (apple juice for any non-drinkers).

The ritual ends with Rojas handing his phone to the series MVP, who takes a selfie with all of his teammates behind him. Rojas collects the photos and shares them in a players-only group chat.

“At the end of the day, it’s baseball and it’s our job. But it’s just a game,” pitcher Dustin May said of the tradition. “Being able to take the little positives and have a little team talk after, put some of the exciting moments of the series on blast — it’s cool.”

The Dodgers are the eighth team that relief pitcher Anthony Banda has played for during a peripatetic major league career that has allowed him to sample an assortment of team cultures.

“I was expecting something because any time a team wins a series there’s some kind of celebration,” the reliever said of joining the Dodgers early last season. “The drinking aspect of it was new because I don’t think I’d been on a team that did shots. It was more of a quick ‘Hoorah’ and then move on.

“What I like most about it is how Miggy Ro or whoever is leading the celebration will point out what was good, the highlights of the series. It seems like he’s very on point with a lot of it, because he never misses any type of deal. Like, he’ll talk about things like what Ben (Casparius) and Jack (Dreyer) did pitching out of the bullpen.”

The tradition’s origin story dates to May 2023 after the Dodgers swept the San Diego Padres in a three-game series at Dodger Stadium. They had taken two out of three in San Diego a week earlier, doubling their dose of revenge for the previous fall’s loss to the Padres in the playoffs.

Rojas and outfielders Jason Heyward and David Peralta were all new to the team that year and took note of how businesslike the Dodgers were in the aftermath of a significant regular-season moment.

“We started talking. ‘These guys aren’t really celebrating,’” Rojas said. “We all felt like this team was all about business at the time and celebrating wins in the regular season would be too much for them.

“I feel like getting used to winning in the regular season was a thing for them.”

The three took their idea to the team’s established veterans — “the big guys — Mookie (Betts), Freddie (Freeman), Kersh (Clayton Kershaw), Will (Smith) and Barnesy (Austin Barnes), guys that had been here for a long time” — and pitched them on making “a little bit of a culture change.”

The tradition took hold and now includes other individual achievements that might otherwise get overlooked. The team toasts players who reach 10 years’ service time (a significant MLB benchmark that brings pension and other benefits), rookies who record their first win or hit and veterans who reach milestones — for example, Kershaw’s 3,000th strikeout and Teoscar Hernandez’s 1,000th career hit recently.

— Bill Plunkett

ALL-STAR game REPLACEMENTS

Carlos Rodón, Carlos Estévez and Casey Mize on Friday were named replacement pitchers on the American League roster for the All-Star Game.

The New York Yankees’ Rodón will replace teammate Max Fried for Tuesday’s game in Atlanta. Fried will be unavailable because he is scheduled to start Saturday against the Chicago Cubs.

The Kansas City Royals’ Estévez replaces Texas’ Jacob deGrom, who is scheduled to start at Houston on Saturday night.

Mize takes the spot held by Boston’s Garrett Crochet, who is scheduled to start Saturday against Tampa Bay. Mize gives the Tigers six All-Stars.

Royals third baseman Maikel Garcia will replace Tampa Bay’s Brandon Lowe, who went on the injured list with left oblique tightness. The additions of Estévez and Garcia give the Royals four All-Stars.