{"id":585796,"date":"2026-04-04T22:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/585796\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T22:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:03:14","slug":"dodgers-mookie-betts-exits-in-1st-inning-with-back-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/585796\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers&#8217; Mookie Betts exits in 1st inning with back pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/lad\/los-angeles-dodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> star <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33039\/mookie-betts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mookie Betts<\/a> left Saturday&#8217;s game at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/wsh\/washington-nationals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington<\/a> after the top of the first inning because of right lower back pain.<\/p>\n<p>Betts was starting at shortstop and batting third when he drew a walk in the first and eventually scored on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/30193\/freddie-freeman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Freddie Freeman<\/a>&#8216;s two-run double. He was replaced in the field by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/30791\/miguel-rojas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miguel Rojas<\/a> before the bottom of the inning.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Betts is coming off a 2025 season in which he played 150 games. He scuffled through the postseason but began the 6-6-3 double play that won Game 7 of the World Series for Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON &#8212; Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts left Saturday&#8217;s game at Washington after the top of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-585796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}