LA Times · Aug 8, 2024
Mookie Betts preps for ‘big difference’ as No. 2 hitter; Brusdar Graterol return ‘hopeful’
Mookie Betts will be back at short when he returns, but in a new lineup spot. For most of the last five seasons, the Dodgers have built themselves around Mookie Betts.
When Betts returns to the Dodgers’ lineup from a broken hand next week, however, he’ll be the one moving in the batting order for someone else.
As he has done since Betts’ injury in mid-June, Shohei Ohtani will remain the Dodgers’ leadoff hitter next week. Betts, for the first time in almost three years, will bat second.
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“I mean, I can’t say I’m better than Shohei,” Betts quipped Wednesday. “There’s nothing really you can say. Whatever Shohei says goes, and after that we kind of fall in line.”