Mookie Betts, taking up the weight after the stomach virus, snails for human resources: “is superhuman”
Los Angeles – The uniform curtains on the body of Mookie Betts as if they were two too large dimensions. The “Dodgers” gold on his chest clings. Just five days ago, he described his body as if to eat himself and revealed that he had lost almost 20 pounds Due to a stomach virus. Already an attempt by an unprecedented transition to shortstops, the former MVP has entered this season with the further challenge of competing well under his usual game weight.
But it’s still Mookie Betts. This was for sure when he rounded the bases, pumping his fist while his second race in the house of the night on Friday got up in the left field pavilion at the Dodger stadium. His explosion of three shots obtained an 8-5 extra-inning victory for the Los Angeles Dodgers on the tigers of Detroit and challenged the imagination.
“It’s superhuman,” said Max Muncy. “I would say that we are not shocked because we have seen it so many times.”
Added the manager Dave Roberts: “It wasn’t on my Bingo card”.
The Dodgers remain unbeaten and crazy as they ride the maximum of their World Series title a year ago. During the ring night, Betts’ race at home cemented their first 4-0 start since Roberts now 52 years old was sitting in its third grade class in the North Carolina in 1981.
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Their first two wins arrived with Betts in a separate continent, having traveled early from their opening parties of the season in Tokyo due to the symptoms of the virus that he had tried before even the journey began. Betts vomited regularly and unable to maintain solid foods for more than a week, requiring an intravenous bag while he was at the Tokyo dome and a blended diet for sustenance while continuing to train.
His status for the opening series to the Dodger Stadium and the parade of celebrations that came at risk was at risk a few days ago. It has spent the last few days to flare all the possible food to regain weight, even during the games.
“Just eating,” said Betts. “All day.”
He regained about half of the weight he lost. Betts, whose usual game was 175 pounds, was 165 pounds on Friday. When his first race in the night of the night, an explosion of travel in the eighth inning against Will Vest, he was unwinded above the fence, attracted playful snickers with teammates who was the most difficult that could hit a ball at the moment. The field reached 96.7 mph and left Betts Mazza at 95.8 mph. It was different.
“At this moment, I’m just having fun hitting the omieri from 160 pounds,” said Betts.
The protagonist that Betts gave the Dodgers was short -lived. Tanner Scott, the relief of Dodgers to great agent, tagged the tigers to their final. A review by Replay, with the New York sentence that the Catcher Austin Barnes tag had caught Manuel Margot’s foot on the plate of the house, kept the game tied and sent it to Extra inning.
The tigers scored two in the tenth, but their lead has evaporated quickly. When Betts arrived at the bottom of the inNing, there were runners to the second and third with one in a draw match. Twice, he was held in life in a complete count by vizing a shot from Detroit’s Beau Briaske. When the eighth BRIESKE DEL BAT shot captured too flat, Betts tangled the gearbox in the seats.
Betts broke out. Weeks of Things who gurgled from inside him came out this time with emotion.
“He was super special,” said Betts. “I know he seems super selfish, but more for me. I was really proud of myself to have entered and play underweight, not that it is a big problem to be underweight. But only the struggle I lived, the highs and the bass, the nights in which I am only crying because I am sick, my wife holds me. It is where that emotion comes from.”
Mookie Betts celebrates with teammates after his run at home. (Kirby Lee / USA Today Network via Imagna images)
The baseball field was already emotionally loaded.
The Dodgers transformed the Friday ceremony into a Hollywood deal. The actor and comedian Anthony Anderson exceeds the celebrations, making fun of Roberts for Twerking on Ice Cube during the fashion show last November. Randy Thomas, the voice of the Academy Awards, managed formal presentations. Keith Williams Jr., an institution in Los Angeles, led an exciting surrender of “We are the Champions League”.
Roberts designed an ovation before Anderson could even say his name. The crowd of ability roar for Clayton Kershaw, as always. Betts have collected collectively. The songs of “Freddie, Freddie” began before the MVP of the World Series in charge climbed for the top step. The building exploded for NL MVP Shohei Ohtani.
It is time to transform the page towards the historical implications of the repetition. But after the failures of October for three seasons among the titles, Roberts and Dodgers wanted to have fun a little longer with some new jewels.
The bright piece of Regalia tells a story. Eight diamonds flank its sides, which represent each of the franchise championships. The bottom, five other diamonds, represents the deficit of five shots that they exceeded in the fifth inning 5 of the World Series last year.
Inside, there is a basic piece of the series overlapped by the Dodgers logo. There are 34 sapphires to honor the deceased Fernando Valenzuela, whose death arrived a few days before the game 1 against the New York Yankees.
The name of each player and uniform numbers are immortalized within an hexagon that imitates the baseball field scoreboard, with the number unborn in multiple diamonds. The interior has the signing of each player inscribed.
“It’s my favorite,” Betts said, who now has three. “I hope I can have a little more and we will be able to compare.”
(Photo above: Kirby Lee / USA TODAY NETWORK through IMAGN images)
