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In the run-up to this week’s National League Division Series, it was the quietest player on the Dodgers roster who delivered the most profound speech. “We can’t look at the mountain,” outfielder Mookie Betts said after the Dodgers moved within one loss of adding another NLDS elimination to their recent postseason failures. “So we have to go out there and …

Mookie Betts belts homer to lift Dodgers in Shohei Ohtani’s return to Anaheim

Dodgers Dugout: The race for MVP, Freddie Freeman vs. Ronald Acuña Jr. vs. Mookie Betts

Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman, left, and center fielder Mookie Betts celebrate an 11-9 win over the Chicago White Sox on Thursday. What you need to know: The Dodgers start the second half of their six-game trip Friday night with the first of three against the Giants in San Francisco. The Dodgers lead the third-place Giants by 6½ games, while …

Mookie Betts’ slump worrisome amid the Dodgers besting Braves: Five takeaways

Mookie Betts has been in a slump, but the Dodgers are off to a strong start anyway. “Certainly the at-bats aren’t Mookie typical,” manager Dave Roberts said prior to Wednesday’s game, when Betts snapped an 0-for-13 skid with a single in the first. “He can go out there and have a good series and he’ll get back on track,” Roberts …

Dodgers right fielder Mookie Betts and shortstop Corey Seager celebrate with their teammates after a 7-2 win over the Giants in Game 4 of the NLDS at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday. Needing a win, the Dodgers delivered a whopper, defeating the Giants 7-2 Tuesday at Dodger Stadium to even the five-game National League Division Series at two games apiece and …

Mookie Betts and Joe Kelly come up big for Dodgers in win over Padres

Mookie Betts, right, celebrates with Dodgers teammate Trea Turner after hitting a three-run home run in the fifth inning of a 5-4 win over the San Diego Padres on Saturday. Walker Buehler rebounded from last Sunday’s three-inning, six-run clunker in San Francisco with a stout seven-inning, two-run, six-hit effort to improve to 14-3 with a 2.32 ERA, Mookie Betts hit …

Mookie Betts shines at plate, on bases and in field as Dodgers close in on Giants

The Dodgers’ Mookie Betts celebrates in the dugout after hitting a fourth-inning homer at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday. On most days this season, before he returned from a second stint on the injured list, Mookie Betts probably doesn’t score from first base on the double Corey Seager ripped into the gap in right-center field on the eighth pitch of his …

Max Muncy homers twice as Dodgers beat Rockies; Mookie Betts leaves with hip flareup

Mookie Betts leaves the game with an injury after doubling during the seventh inning Saturday night. In the seventh inning of a 9-2 victory over the Colorado Rockies, Betts hit his third double of the evening but slowed between first and second base, then left the game with what the Dodgers said was irritation in his right hip. Manager Dave …

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Dodgers’ Mookie Betts opts out of All-Star game, but Walker Buehler, Justin Turner get in

Dodgers pitcher Walker Buehler and third baseman Justin Turner have been added to the National League roster as replacements for Tuesday night’s All-Star game in Denver, but outfielder Mookie Betts has opted out of the game because of injury. New York Mets ace Jacob deGrom, Houston Astros stars Carlos Correa, Jose Altuve and Michael Brantley, San Diego Padres ace Yu …

How high are Mookie Betts’ expectations? He says he was merely ‘serviceable’ in 2020

Dodgers right fielder Mookie Betts, right, smiles while talking with outfielder A.J. “But Mookie, like all great players, they expect a lot from themselves.” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts celebrates with Mookie Betts after the right fielder scored a run against the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 6 of the World Series on Oct. 27. But I think we have a …

Dodger talk: Justin Turner and Mookie Betts address the team ahead of NLDS vs. Padres