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Mookie Betts<\/a> did not travel with the Dodgers and will not play Friday night when Los Angeles faces the host Boston Red Sox<\/a> as he deals with a personal matter, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told reporters Friday.<\/p>\n Roberts said he is unsure whether Betts will be in the lineup Saturday, though Betts is expected to arrive in Boston around the 7:15 p.m. ET start of that night’s game.<\/p>\n “There might be some things going on that he might not be around, that he’s got to deal with personally,” Roberts said after Wednesday’s 4-3 win over the visiting Minnesota Twins<\/a> in which Betts started a ninth-inning rally with a two-out infield single. “Everything is OK with him, but yeah, we’ll see.”<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n 2 Related<\/p>\n Betts, 32, spent the first six seasons of his career in Boston and was the American League MVP in 2018, when he led the Red Sox to a World Series victory over the Dodgers. Betts was traded to the Dodgers in 2020 for Alex Verdugo<\/a>, Jeter Downs<\/a> and Connor Wong<\/a>. He has been an All-Star and earned MVP votes in four of his first five years with Los Angeles. He helped the Dodgers win the World Series in 2020 and 2024.<\/p>\n Betts has struggled this season with career lows across the board offensively, hitting .238 with a .309 on-base percentage, a .370 slugging percentage, 11 homers and 45 RBIs in 94 games.<\/p>\n The eight-time All-Star owns a career batting line of .290\/.369\/.514 with 282 homers and 876 RBIs in 1,475 games for the Red Sox (2014-2019) and Dodgers (2020-25).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 25, 2025, 06:18 PM ET Mookie Betts did not travel with the Dodgers and will not play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-37615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}