Mookie Betts could not play in the first two games of the Los Angeles Dodgers of the regular season in Tokyo last week due to a disease – and he may still not be able to adapt this week.
The Dodgers swept the set of two games abroad against the Chicago Cubs, despite the two games of Betts and even Freddie Freeman.
It was revealed that Betts faced a kind of stomach bug, and he could not keep solid food for almost two weeks, forcing him to lose 25 pounds.
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Mookie Betts could not play in the first two games of the Los Angeles Dodgers of the regular season in Tokyo last week due to a disease – and he may still not be able to adapt this week. (Brad Penner / Imagn images)
“You weigh yourself and weigh 150 pounds. Before leaving spring, I was 175 years old (books). It is difficult not to eat. … My body is just a little eaten. Literally every time I was fuel, I vomit and I don’t know what to do on this subject. I am afraid of eating. I don’t really know what to do” Betts said this week.
Betts was actually returned to Los Angeles of Japan to undergo tests and said: “Everything came up clean”.
“I mean, I feel good. As, my body feels good. I was able to train. I was able to do almost anything but eat, which is strange,” said Betts. “So, the symptoms have somehow disappeared. I just have to understand how to make my stomach calm down.”
“My vital signs, everything came up clean. Blood tests, everything came back really, really clean and healthy,” he added. “I guess it’s just something with my stomach is really aggravated, so I just started new drugs now to try to calm my stomach.”
The Dodgers and the Angels met for two exhibition matches before the opening day, but Betts was a late scratch on Sunday and will not play on Monday.
Betts faced a kind of stomach bug, and he could not keep solid food for almost two weeks, forcing him to lose 25 pounds. (Michael Reaves / Getty Images)
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Now, the title champions of World Series could also miss Betts on American soil.
“It is just difficult to understand not to eat and go to play a game,” said Betts. “So it looks like I’m going to be light a little.
The eight stars reduced .289 / .372 / .491 in 116 games last year, the least he had in a season since he became a full -time player, excluding the shortened campaign in 2020.
The Dodgers and the Angels met for two exhibition matches before the opening day, but Betts was a late scratch on Sunday and will not play on Monday. (Wendell Cruz-Imagn images)
Whenever Betts returns, however, he will slip directly to the top of an order that includes Freeman, Shohei Ohtani, Will Smith, Max Muncy and Teoscernaz.
The Detroit Tigers welcomes her on Thursday.
