Mookie Betts

Mookie Betts knows he’s struggling. He still homered and scored three runs. The Dodgers’ bullpen let six straight Rangers reach base and allowed three runs in the ninth. Kenley Jansen still got three gritty outs with the bases loaded to end it. Manager Dave Roberts was thoroughly unhappy with his team’s performance. Los Angeles still moved within one game...

Mookie Betts hit the 25th leadoff home run of his big league career and the Los Angeles Dodgers kept up their dominance of the Pittsburgh Pirates in a 6-3 win on Thursday. Betts took the third pitch he saw from Mitch Keller (3-7) and sent it into the bullpen beyond the centerfield fence for his sixth homer this season. Cody…

Gavin Lux hit his first career grand slam and Julio Urías pitched three-hit ball into the seventh inning of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ sixth victory in seven games, 9-1 over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night. Mookie Betts hit a leadoff homer and Chris Taylor added a tiebreaking, two-run shot in the fifth inning before Lux broke it open...

The Los Angeles Dodgers scored 13 runs in two innings to take a massive mid-game lead. Over the next two innings, they gave 10 of it back to the Los Angeles Angels. The way the World Series champions’ rocky title defense has been going for the past three weeks, perhaps it’s no surprise they couldn’t claim their first win in…

David Fletcher drove in three runs on three hits, Shohei Ohtani had two RBI doubles and the Los Angeles Angels snapped their five-game losing streak with a 9-2 victory over the slumping Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night. Justin Upton and Taylor Ward homered in the Angels’ four-run second inning, and Mike Trout had a late RBI triple as the…

Travis Shaw homered and hit a game-winning single, and the Milwaukee Brewers scored three runs in the 11th inning to beat the scuffling Los Angeles Dodgers 6-5 on Saturday night. Los Angeles, which has dropped three straight to Milwaukee, also lost starter Dustin May to an apparent injury after he had thrown just 27 pitches. The game was tied at…

Mookie Betts was out of the Los Angeles Dodgers lineup on Tuesday after getting hit on the right forearm a night earlier, but manager Dave Roberts doesn’t expect it to be a long-term issue. Roberts said X-rays on Betts’ arm were negative after the former MVP took a fastball from Seattle closer Rafael Montero off the inside of his...

The official and complete list of the 2020 Los Angeles Dodgers walk up songs.

Although Mookie Betts has already won a World Series ring and finished second in NL MVP voting while wearing Dodger Blue, he had never been serenaded with long, loud, loving chants of “Mooooookie!” echoing through Chavez Ravine. Los Angeles’ fans took care of that Tuesday night, and they also gave plenty of love to Trevor Bauer during his homecoming start…

His fist was raised high in the air in triumph. The ball hadn’t even landed yet, but it was as if Walker Buehler already knew what was about to happen. Over 300 feet away Mookie Betts was hastily backpedaling before leaping up at the last second. His eyes closed as he crashed into the wall. He had just made the…

Clayton Kershaw struck out eight in seven smooth innings to send the Athletics to their worst start in more than a century, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat winless Oakland 5-1 on Tuesday night for their fifth straight victory. Mookie Betts homered for the first time this season, a towering solo shot to left-center in the ninth. Max Muncy and…

Justin Turner made his 2021 Spring Training debut on Monday, and the third baseman predictably got a hit in his first at-bat. Turner finished 1-for-2 in the Dodgers 10-0 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Monday, their second exhibition game of spring. Several weeks ago, it appeared as if the annual Justin Turner hitting clinic that he puts on every…

Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts won his fifth consecutive Gold Glove Award on Tuesday, and won his third straight Silver Slugger award, fourth overall on Thursday. Both awards were his first as a member of the Dodgers. The 28-year-old two-time World Series Champion becomes the second straight Dodger player to win both awards. Centerfielder, and 2019 NL MVP Cody…

Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts could become the second player to win the MVP award in each league, and New York Mets ace Jacob deGrom is in the running for his third consecutive NL Cy Young Award. The competition, of course, is tough. Betts, Freddie Freeman and Manny Machado are the top finishers for NL MVP in balloting by…

Joc Pederson took a deep breath, exhaled, and then swung like his life depended on it. The baseball landed 430-feet away, bouncing off the back wall of the Tampa Bay bullpen. After Pederson touched home plate and jogged back to the dugout, he took his helmet off. Ordinarily, you would expect a look of jubilation or glee upon his face….

Justin Turner trotted around the bases, his long red beard bouncing back and forth, the back of his uniform stained by a pine-tar infused backswing. Before touching home plate Turner looked up at the Dodgers dugout and mouthed something inaudible for the 11,447 in attendance, but that resonated clearly with his teammates: “We can beat this guy.” To fully understand…