Los Angeles – Sunday has marked the first time that Los Angeles Dodgers, the quotation quote Mookie Betts, was able to put shoes since he made a toe on his left foot earlier this week. More importantly, he marked the first time that he was able to move.
Betts, for the weekend series against New York Yankees after having been fracture at its fourth toe on the left, played Catch and participated in light defensive work before the final of the Dodger Stadium series.
Betts will not start on Monday against the New York dishes, said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, after the 7-3 defeat of his team on Sunday evening. The hope at this point is that he will be back in alignment on Tuesday, avoiding a visit to the injured list.
Dodgers can afford to wait after taking two of the three Yankees games in a long -awaited revenge of the World Series.
“I would love to be there to help boys to play,” said Betts, “but I’m just in the mindset of acceptance. I can’t do anything now; accept it where I am, look at the boys play. They fly, then, just take advantage of my seat until it is my turn.”
The month of May has just finished, Betts having already been in the grip of two bizarre evils this season. The first was a stomach disease that led him to lose almost 20 pounds and miss the Japan team’s opening series near mid-March.
Two months later, the Dodgers voltiseur became Shortstop said that he had struck his toe against a wall in his house while walking towards the bathroom in the middle of the night after the return of the team on a six -game road trip on Wednesday. The radiographs revealed a fracture.
Between the two, Betts turned out to be a major league stop more than capable, but its offensive number is slightly down. Betts reduced .254 / .338 / .405 with eight circuits and five bases stolen in 53 games. Son .742 OPS is 55 points lower than its career brand before the season.
Betts denied that the management of a large part of its objective on a major change has prompted its offense to be lagging behind, pointing from last year, when it reduced. 308 / .407 / .500 at the start of the games at the stop.
“You can report it and try to do it about the stop stop, but it is not the COURT stop,” he said. “You look at last year, I played fairly well while playing the stop stop and I did not know what I was doing. Now, I am much more confident in the way I introduce myself and prepare every day, so the arrest argument cannot be that.”
