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Dave Roberts offers Mookie Betts a time off as season-long stoop continues

By Editorial Board Published July 20, 2025 6 Min Read
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Dave Roberts offers Mookie Betts a time off as season-long stoop continues

It took only one sport popping out of the All-Star break for Dave Roberts to know Mookie Betts nonetheless wasn’t proper.

Every week in the past, Roberts was hopeful that Betts — coming off his first missed All-Star Sport in a decade — would return from the break refocused and rejuvenated; able to snap out of a career-worst begin to his season and rediscover a swing that has eluded him for a lot of the marketing campaign.

As an alternative, within the Dodgers’ second-half opener Friday evening, Betts went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts. His batting common dipped to .241 (greater than 20 factors worse than he has ever posted in a full season) whereas his OPS fell to .688 (the worst it has been all yr). And, as has been the case for a lot of the summer time, his indicators of frustration have been abundantly clear, with the 32-year-old trying misplaced on the plate.

Thus, when Roberts set his crew’s lineup for Saturday, the supervisor made a shock choice to go away Betts out of it, giving his famous person shortstop an unplanned time off after calling Betts on Saturday morning to debate the state of his sport.

“Talking to him, seeing where his head is at, seeing where he’s at mechanically, I just thought tonight was a night where I felt he needed to be down,” Roberts stated hours later, forward of the Dodgers’ sport in opposition to the Milwaukee Brewers.

“He was more than willing and wanted to be out there. But for me, I wanted to take it out of his hands [so he could] have a day. I’ve talked about this before, just having players watch a baseball game. And I understand we just had four days off at the break. But still showing up at the ballpark, and not participating, watching, that’s a different mindset, psyche than being at home. So for him to come here, show up, not play, know he’s not going to play, I feel good about the work he’s going to put in today. Also, I think, for the mind it will be beneficial.”

Betts didn’t speak to reporters Saturday, however did undergo his regular set of pregame infield drills at shortstop — additional confirming that, certainly, his absence from the lineup had nothing to do with any kind of injury-related concern.

Whereas Roberts stated his “expectation” is that Betts will probably be again in motion Sunday, he left the door open to giving Betts one other time off for the collection finale.

“It’s going to be a day-to-day thing,” Roberts stated. “It’s going to be my decision on how I feel he is mentally to take on that night’s starter.”

There was no particular second from Friday’s sport that satisfied Roberts such a break was warranted. As an alternative, it was the truth that so little had seemingly modified from the place Betts was earlier than the All-Star break, when he reached the halfway mark in a three-for-24 stoop and batting simply .185 over his earlier 31 video games.

“He’s not used to struggling like this,” Roberts stated of Betts, who additionally has solely 11 residence runs and a .377 slugging proportion. “There’s a part of it where you feel like you’re letting people down, letting the team down. That weight that is just natural for him to carry is there. That’s a little bit from last night, just seeing him.”

Betts has struggled to establish the reason for his decline — one so stark, he has a below-league-average mark of 95 within the all-encompassing OPS+ metric (successfully which means he has been 5% much less productive than a league common hitter).

In an interview earlier than Friday’s sport, he stated he has cycled by way of varied “feels” along with his swing in hopes of getting his mechanics realigned. Hitting coach Robert Van Scoyoc pointed to inefficiencies in the best way Betts “loads” his arms and palms, which he believes have impacted the slugger’s bat path and swing sequence.

“There’s no exact [fix], where you can do this, this and this,” Van Scoyoc stated, “because he has to find something for him that works organically that gets him lined up.”

To that finish, Roberts’ hope is that Saturday’s time off will assist.

That it comes simply two days into the second half indicators how pressing Betts’ struggles have turn into.

“He understood,” Roberts stated. “He’s a guy that wants to be out there every single day. But I think he understood that it was my decision and I think it’s best for him, I think it’s best for our ball club. He’ll be ready when called upon.”

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