{"id":663283,"date":"2026-05-11T23:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/663283\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T23:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:47:08","slug":"dodgers-activate-mookie-betts-from-injured-list-option-alex-freeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/663283\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers activate Mookie Betts from injured list, option Alex Freeland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles activated shortstop Mookie Betts from the injured list on Monday and optioned Alex Freeland to triple-A Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>Betts hit the IL on April 5 with a right oblique strain.<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 AL MVP left a 10-5 victory\u00a0over the Washington Nationals after walking and scoring in the first inning. Manager Dave Roberts said the Dodgers believe Betts was initially injured on a check swing during the at-bat.<\/p>\n<p>Betts was hitting .179 in Los Angeles\u2019 first eight games. The 33-year-old hit .258 with 20 homers and 82 RBIs in 150 games last season.<\/p>\n<p>He completed a two-game rehab stint in triple-A, where he went 2-for-5 with a walk.<\/p>\n<p>Betts will look to boost a slumping Dodgers lineup, which ranks 23rd in baseball with a .660 OPS over the last two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>He will bat second on Monday as L.A. opens a series at home against the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles activated shortstop Mookie Betts from the injured list on Monday and optioned Alex Freeland to triple-A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-663283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}