{"id":664449,"date":"2026-04-05T11:41:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/664449\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T11:41:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:41:32","slug":"mookie-betts-leaves-game-in-1st-inning-for-dodgers-with-right-lower-back-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/664449\/","title":{"rendered":"Mookie Betts leaves game in 1st inning for Dodgers with right lower back pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts left Saturday\u2019s game at Washington after the top of the first inning because of right lower back pain.<\/p>\n<p>Betts was starting at shortstop and batting third when he drew a walk in the first and eventually scored on Freddie Freeman\u2019s two-run double. He was replaced in the field by Miguel Rojas before the bottom of the inning. The Dodgers <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/dodgers-nationals-score-ac5daf2418fa95753845316617ff1d64\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">went on to win 10-5<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Manager Dave Roberts said postgame that Betts would have an MRI on Saturday night and is unlikely to play Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was running the bases, scoring on that double,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cIt\u2019s certainly more moderate than significant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, Roberts indicated Betts will not be rushed back for the series finale at Washington \u2014 or even the following game on the turf at Toronto on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to get too far ahead of what we\u2019re going to do,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cWe\u2019ll huddle up and see if we need to get a player here. &#8230; He certainly won\u2019t be playing the next couple days, I would assume.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Betts is coming off a 2025 season in which he played 150 games. He scuffled through the postseason but began the 6-6-3 double play that won Game 7 of the World Series for Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts left Saturday\u2019s game at Washington after the top of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,2178,1560,5859,11189,39,815,1165,4332,4333,774,57,3224,4331,4771,1212,8935,4,256,8080,1526,185,1568],"class_list":{"0":"post-664449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-dodgers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-dave-roberts","11":"tag-dc-wire","12":"tag-district-of-columbia","13":"tag-dodgers","14":"tag-freddie-freeman","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-dodgers","17":"tag-ladodgers","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","20":"tag-losangeles","21":"tag-losangelesdodgers","22":"tag-maryland","23":"tag-md-state-wire","24":"tag-miguel-rojas","25":"tag-mlb","26":"tag-mlb-baseball","27":"tag-mlb-world-series","28":"tag-mookie-betts","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-virginia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116351921218590112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664449","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=664449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}