LOS ANGELES — Mookie Betts stubbed a toe in his left foot throughout an off-the-field incident and missed the opener of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ extremely anticipated collection in opposition to the New York Yankees on Friday.
Betts shouldn’t be anticipated to go on the injured listing, in accordance with Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts, however he is not going to begin in opposition to the Yankees on Saturday or Sunday. Roberts mentioned the hope is that Betts will return to the lineup shortly thereafter.
“For me, proper now, it is simply day-to-day,” Roberts mentioned after the Dodgers’ 8-5, come-from-behind win.
The incident, which affected the tip of Betts’ second toe, was believed to have occurred late Wednesday night time, after the Dodgers returned from a six-game highway journey, when Betts banged his toe in opposition to a chunk of furnishings at his home. Betts referred to as Roberts to tell him about his toe on Friday morning, then underwent X-rays at Dodger Stadium later that afternoon.
These X-rays revealed a fracture, a supply advised ESPN, confirming what Betts advised the Los Angeles Instances after Friday’s recreation. The Dodgers’ coaching workers will spend the weekend making an attempt to get the swelling down on his toe. At this level, the Dodgers do not imagine he could make the harm any worse by taking part in on it.
Stated Roberts: “It should be a type of conditions per his [pain] tolerance.”
Betts’ harm is not the Dodgers’ most critical in the intervening time. Late-inning reliever Evan Phillips, who was rehabbing a forearm harm, did not really feel proper taking part in catch earlier this week and can bear Tommy John surgical procedure subsequent week, knocking him out for all of 2025 and most of 2026.
Phillips, 30, was launched by the Baltimore Orioles in August 2021 and designated for task by the Tampa Bay Rays lower than two weeks later. The Dodgers picked him up and turned him right into a worthwhile late-game choice. From 2022 to 2024, Phillips posted a 2.21 ERA and 0.92 WHIP, saved 44 video games and struck out 206 batters in 179 regular-season innings.
However Phillips handled arm points throughout final yr’s postseason run and was left off the crew’s World Sequence roster. He then went on the IL due to a rotator cuff pressure in the midst of March, returned a month later, notched seven scoreless appearances, then went again on the IL on Might 7 due to what the crew referred to as forearm discomfort. Platelet-rich-plasma injections didn’t take. Phillips by no means bought higher.
“As we began stepping into it, it wasn’t actually responding,” Dodgers normal supervisor Brandon Gomes mentioned. “We felt like this could possibly be a chance, in order he bought deeper into the method and it wasn’t actually getting higher, the choice to do it was just about evident with our data.” The lack of Phillips is coupled with the Dodgers having 4 different high-leverage relievers on the IL — Brusdar Graterol, Blake Treinen, Kirby Yates and Michael Kopech, all of whom are right-handed.
The Dodgers tried to backfill a few of that depth by buying and selling for former All-Star nearer Alexis Diaz on Thursday. However Diaz, who struggled so badly this season that the Cincinnati Reds optioned him to Triple-A, will initially work out of the Dodgers’ spring coaching advanced in Glendale, Ariz.
The Dodgers even have three beginning pitchers — Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow and Roki Sasaki — recovering from shoulder accidents, with Shohei Ohtani not anticipated to hitch the rotation till someday after the All-Star break.
The lineup, at the least, had been wholesome. Till now.
Betts, 32, bought off to a gradual begin however was nonetheless slashing .254/.338/.405 with 8 dwelling runs and 5 stolen bases whereas slotting between the hot-hitting Ohtani and Freddie Freeman within the No. 2 spot. Extra notably, Betts had confirmed to be a succesful main league shortstop after working throughout the offseason on the place.
The hope is that the toe harm would not set him again for much longer than the remainder of this weekend.
Within the meantime, Miguel Rojas will proceed to get begins at shortstop.
“It is a good half about having depth,” Gomes mentioned. “Preserve the prepare transferring.”
