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Mookie Betts<\/a> is set to begin a rehab assignment Friday for the Dodgers’ Triple-A affiliate, putting him on track to return to the big league team next week.<\/p>\n The Oklahoma City Dodgers said Thursday that Betts is scheduled to play for them Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n The shortstop has been on the injured list since April 5 because of a right oblique strain suffered a day earlier on a check swing during an at-bat. The team expected him to miss about four to six weeks at the time.<\/p>\n Betts was hitting .179 with two home runs and seven RBIs through the Dodgers’ first eight games before the injury.<\/p>\n The Dodgers open a seven-game homestand Friday, playing three against the Atlanta Braves<\/a> and then four against the San Francisco Giants<\/a>.br\/]<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, May 8, 2026 2:33AM Mookie Betts is set to begin a rehab assignment Friday for the Dodgers’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[317869,64,63,317868,794,1187,591,44,85],"class_list":["post-657418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-317869","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-betts-mookie","tag-espn","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657418","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=657418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}