TORONTO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts struck an optimistic tone in front of his locker at Rogers Centre on Monday. But neither he nor manager Dave Roberts put a date on when he\u2019d return from a right oblique strain.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust as fast as possible,\u201d Betts said. \u201cBut obviously, I know I need to be smart with obliques. They can kind of linger around, so be smart about it. But I\u2019m not trying to take my time or anything, I want to play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other than some very specific movements \u2014 Betts is shut down from hitting and throwing \u2014 he said he doesn\u2019t notice the injury. He called it \u201cmuch less severe\u201d than the left oblique strain he sustained during his 2018 MVP season.<\/p>\n
That injury came on a swing in the batting cage and sidelined him for about two weeks.<\/p>\n
This time, there is some debate over exactly how Betts injured his oblique, which prompted him to be put on the 10-day injured list. Betts said it happened while running the bases to score on Freddie Freeman\u2019s two-run double in the first inning against the Washington Nationals on Saturday. He was adamant that it wasn\u2019t on a check swing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a perfectly normal day, so that\u2019s why I don\u2019t know where it came from, or how it happened,\u201d he said. \u201cI prepared. I\u2019ve been doing it right, and I\u2019ll give myself credit, I\u2019ve been doing it right. So I don\u2019t know where it came from other than just God sending a message.\u201d<\/p>\n
Because rotational injuries like oblique strains are less commonly sustained while running, Roberts still buys into the theory that the injury originated on the check swing.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that there\u2019s no one point, I think that\u2019s a good thing,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cSo yeah, we\u2019re hopeful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts struck an optimistic tone in front of his locker at Rogers Centre on Monday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,39,815,1982,3386,1165,4332,4333,84920,774,57,3224,4331,4,1526,84921,46098,1602,3285,84922,9023,4833,30889,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-667232","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-dodgers","10":"tag-freddie-freeman","11":"tag-front","12":"tag-injury","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-la-dodgers","15":"tag-ladodgers","16":"tag-locker","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","19":"tag-losangeles","20":"tag-losangelesdodgers","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-mookie-betts","23":"tag-optimistic-tone","24":"tag-right-oblique-strain","25":"tag-roberts","26":"tag-rogers-centre","27":"tag-rotational-injury","28":"tag-swing","29":"tag-time","30":"tag-two-run","31":"tag-washington-nationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116360290547287398","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667232","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=667232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}