{"id":663473,"date":"2026-04-04T21:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663473\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:50:23","slug":"dodgers-ss-mookie-betts-back-exits-in-first-inning-vs-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663473\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers SS Mookie Betts (back) exits in first inning vs. Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Field Level Media;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fieldlevelmedia.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Field Level Media\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"312\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bc126ea0-acd9-11ef-adff-76a94cf3e57a.png\"\/><\/a>Sat, April 4, 2026 at 9:35 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1100\" height=\"733\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/fa5cf72c19718ba3476695fa76757d8c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Apr 4, 2026; Washington, District of Columbia, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts (50) is congratulated by teammates after scoring a run against the Washington Nationals during the first inning at Nationals Park. Mandatory Credit: Brad Mills-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p> (Brad Mills-Imagn Images)<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Dodgers star shortstop Mookie Betts exited in the middle of the first inning of Saturday&#8217;s game against the Washington Nationals due to right lower back pain, the club said.<\/p>\n<p>Betts apparently was injured while the running the bases. He drew a walk and scored on Freddie Freeman&#8217;s two-run double. Betts slowly walked toward the Dodgers&#8217; dugout after scoring.<\/p>\n<p>A further update is expected after the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Betts, 33, is batting just .179 (5-for-28) with two homers and seven RBIs in eight games.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel Rojas replaced Betts at shortstop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sat, April 4, 2026 at 9:35 PM UTC Apr 4, 2026; Washington, District of Columbia, USA; Los Angeles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,815,57,8935,4,1526,415,414,71,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-663473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-freddie-freeman","10":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","11":"tag-miguel-rojas","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-mookie-betts","14":"tag-nationals","15":"tag-washington","16":"tag-washington-nationals","17":"tag-washingtonnationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116348652402832731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}