Former Red Sox and current Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts is not at Fenway Park for the clubs’ series-opening game Friday due to personal reasons.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told reporters on Thursday that he anticipated Betts, 32, would not be with the team for the first game of the weekend series in Boston.
“There might be some things going on that he might not want to be around, that he’s got to deal with personally,” Roberts said (via MLB.com’s Sonja Chen). “Everything is OK with him, but yeah, we’ll see.”
Pregame Friday, Roberts explained that Betts is at his home in Nashville.