DETROIT — Looking back, if Mookie Betts had to do it all over again, he’d have done exactly the same thing.
Well, maybe minus the backflip.
“I went over a lot of ways of what else I could have done, and I was actually happy with what I did,” the Red Sox’ 22-year-old center fielder said yesterday in his first public comments 10 days after suffering a concussion while flipping over the 5-foot high bullpen wall at Fenway Park in an attempt to make a running catch. “It just turned out to not work to my advantage.