{"id":39958,"date":"2025-07-27T00:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T00:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/39958\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T00:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T00:42:10","slug":"mookie-betts-set-to-join-dodgers-in-boston-after-death-in-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/39958\/","title":{"rendered":"Mookie Betts set to join Dodgers in Boston after death in family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jul 26, 2025, 06:46 PM ET<\/p>\n

BOSTON — Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> star Mookie Betts<\/a> is expected to return to the team sometime Saturday night after missing a game because of a death in the family, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.<\/p>\n

Betts, 32, traveled to his home in Nashville, Tennessee, for the day off Thursday and missed Los Angeles’ 5-2 victory<\/a> over his former team, the Boston Red Sox<\/a>, on Friday night at Fenway Park.<\/p>\n

“Mookie is ‘wheels up,'” Roberts said, sitting in the Dodgers’ dugout about two hours before the scheduled first pitch. “He’s on his way here, and I expect him to be at the stadium sometime around, shortly after the first pitch.”<\/p>\n

Roberts was asked if he could say why Betts, mired in one of the worst seasons of his career, left the team.<\/p>\n

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“I think it’s more for him to talk about. It was something with his family and a situation where he had to be home taking care of it,” Roberts said. “A death in the family. … For him to be with his family and to come back and be with his teammates is high priority.”<\/p>\n

The 2018 American League MVP with Boston, Betts is batting .238 with 11 homers and 45 RBIs this season. Last Saturday night, he was benched for a game against Milwaukee<\/a> because of his struggles at the plate.<\/p>\n

After not playing for that game, he has gone just 3-for-17 with no homers or RBIs.<\/p>\n

Roberts said he’d talk to Betts to see how he felt when asked if he was available to come off the bench Saturday.<\/p>\n

A World Series champion with the Red Sox in 2018, Betts was traded after six seasons in Boston to the Dodgers before the COVID-19-shortened 2020 season, when he won his first of two Series titles with Los Angeles, which also won the championship last season.<\/p>\n

Shortly after going to the Dodgers, Betts signed a 12-year, $365 million deal.<\/p>\n

Some Red Sox fans were eagerly awaiting another return to Fenway by Betts, with a handful of his Boston and Los Angeles jerseys sprinkled in the stands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 26, 2025, 06:46 PM ET BOSTON — Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts is expected to return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-39958","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\/39958","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=39958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}