Mookie Betts‘Return to the stop stop will have to wait Riders Go home from Japan.
Betts will miss the two opening games of the Dodgers at Tokyo Dome this week against the Chicago Cubs, manager Dave Roberts said on Monday, when he continues to recover from a stomach virus which kept it out of action since last weekend.
Betts should be ready for the Dodgers’ domestic opening match on March 27 against the Detroit Tigers. But in the meantime, Roberts said that the Dodgers “considered” to send him back to his home in Los Angeles early, before the team left after the second match on Wednesday against the Cubs.
“He always tries to find his (physically) path,” said Roberts. “I think the question is what is best to prepare it for the opening day?” We are still talking. It’s on the table.
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Betts began to feel sick before the team left for Japan last week. He made his last appearance of the Cactus League on March 9, continuing to go back to a stop position He should play full time this year after a three -month visit last year. But after reporting his symptoms to the club the next day, he was selected from the last two games of the team in Arizona.
Roberts said that there was not much initial consideration for Betts to miss the trip to Tokyo; Nor care that his illness, which, according to Roberts, did not think of being contagious, spread to other members of the team.
However, during his illness, Betts lost almost 15 pounds, according to Roberts, and looked much thinner when he arrived in Tokyo. Although he has finally started to feel better in recent days, he was still fighting against the persistent effects of dehydration and fatigue.
“The fact is that when you lose a lot of weight, when you are dehydrated, this is what opens a person with injuries with soft tissue,” said Roberts. “We are very aware of this. So, to take next week, call him, to strengthen him, his strengths, do baseball activities to prepare for the operator at home. »»
Betts did not play in any of the Dodgers’ exhibition matches against the Japanese teams this weekend. During an avant-match training on Sunday, the former 32-year-old MVP looked visibly tired while taking bullets on the ground, placing his hands on his knees several times between exercises.
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Betts was to participate in a rest training session on Monday, but ended up abandoning the session.
Roberts said that the Betts’s additional assessment returned to the Copstrame had contributed to the team’s decision to retain it from the opening matches on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The manager also admitted that if the Dodgers had known that Betts could not play Tokyo, they would probably have done him behind the trip.
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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
