Mookie Betts could be ready for the Riders“Open game after all.
Although it was scratched from the match of the team’s highway series on Sunday, and withdrawn from the programming on Monday at Angel Stadium on Monday, the converted shortfield stopped improved symptoms following a training session at Dodger Stadium on Monday afternoon, manager Dave Roberts said, raising the hope that Betts will make his debut in the season Thursday’s home opening Against the Tigers of Detroit.
“Really encouraged,” said Roberts. “I think Mookie has turned a corner.”
Betts missed the two games of Dodgers in Japan last week while fighting a stomach virus, which would be a case of norovirus, according to several people with knowledge of the unauthorized situation to speak publicly. Betts said that he had lost almost 20 pounds during his illness, which started a few days before the team’s departure for Japan earlier this month. He was scratched shortly before the first launch on Sunday, he said because he had to vomit after trying to eat solid foods.
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“I am tired of sitting, tired of simply vomiting, tired of doing all of this,” Betts said Sunday. “Each time – literally, every time – I was fueling my body, I vomited.”
On Monday, however, Roberts said that Betts had not only been able to keep the foods solid, but felt good after a training session which included both defensive exercises at the stop stop (the Betts post returns full this season) and the practice of the striker.
Betts should now play in the final of the Freeway series on Tuesday. If this is going well, it should be aligned Thursday, when the regular season calendar resumes.
“I think it had to be quite worrying, because there is really not something to compare what he lived,” said Roberts about Betts’ disease, who has persisted so long that the 32 -year -old man opted for BloodWork to exclude something more serious. “But spoke to him on the way back today. He said he felt good. And expects him to play tomorrow. So right now, we’re in a good place.”
Dodgers are also convinced that the first basic player Freddie FreemanWho also missed the two Tokyo games after a push in the same area of his coasts which he suffered from the torn cartilage during the playoffs last year, exceeded his number.
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Freeman played in the two games in the highway series this week, and said on Monday that he thought that his discomfort of the coast was simply the result of the shortage of scar tissue which had accumulated where the injury last October had healed. He made enough progress before the return of Japan, he added, that he didn’t even need to go for an MRI.
“I hope it will be a reflection afterwards by Thursday,” said Freeman. “I was able to hit the cage and do whatever I wanted on match day (in Japan). But I didn’t know, the speed of play, if it was going up. So I thought we finally made the right decision.”
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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
