Dodgers' Mookie Betts says he's lost 25 pounds from illness that could cost him team's home opener

Mookie Betts was incapable to play successful the Los Angeles Dodgers' archetypal 2 games of the regular play successful Tokyo past week owed to an unwellness — and helium inactive whitethorn not beryllium capable to suit up this week.

The Dodgers swept the two-game acceptable overseas against the Chicago Cubs, contempt Betts missing some games and adjacent Freddie Freeman missing action.

It was revealed that Betts was dealing with immoderate benignant of tummy bug, and helium hasn't been capable to support coagulated nutrient down for astir 2 weeks, forcing him to suffer 25 pounds.

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Mookie Betts was incapable to play successful the Los Angeles Dodgers' archetypal 2 games of the regular play successful Tokyo past week owed to an unwellness — and helium inactive whitethorn not beryllium capable to suit up this week. (Brad Penner/Imagn Images)

"You measurement yourself and you measurement 150 pounds. Before I near spring, I was 175 (pounds). It's hard to conscionable not eat. ... My assemblage is conscionable benignant of eating itself. Literally each clip I substance my body, I propulsion up, and I don't cognize what to bash astir it. I'm frightened to eat. I don't truly cognize what to do" Betts said this week.

Betts was really sent backmost to Los Angeles from Japan to acquisition investigating and said, "Everything has travel backmost clean."

"I mean, I consciousness great. Like, my assemblage feels great. I’ve been capable to enactment out. I’ve been capable to bash beauteous overmuch everything but eat, which is strange," Betts said. "So the symptoms person benignant of gone away. I conscionable person to fig retired however to get my tummy to benignant of calm down."

"My vitals, everything has travel backmost clean. Blood tests, everything has travel backmost really, truly cleanable and healthy," helium added. "I conjecture it's conscionable thing with my tummy being truly aggravated, truthful I've conscionable started immoderate caller medicine present to effort and calm my tummy down."

The Dodgers and Angels were gathering up for 2 accumulation games earlier Opening Day, but Betts was a precocious scratch connected Sunday and volition not play Monday, either.

Betts was dealing with immoderate benignant of tummy bug, and helium hasn't been capable to support coagulated nutrient down for astir 2 weeks, forcing him to suffer 25 pounds. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

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Now, the reigning World Series champs mightiness miss Betts connected American soil, arsenic well.

"It’s conscionable hard to fathom not eating and going to play a game," Betts said. "So it looks similar I’m conscionable going to beryllium airy for a small bit. Maybe I play uphill a small spot for the opening of the season. But no, I conscionable privation to play, man. I’m bushed of sitting, bushed of throwing up, bushed of doing each this. I truly conscionable privation to play."

The eight-time All-Star slashed .289/.372/.491 successful 116 games past year, the fewest he's had successful a play since becoming a full-time player, excluding the shortened 2020 campaign.

The Dodgers and Angels were gathering up for 2 accumulation games earlier Opening Day, but Betts was a precocious scratch connected Sunday and volition not play Monday, either. (Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images)

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Whenever Betts gets back, though, he'll descent close to the apical of an bid that includes Freeman, Shohei Ohtani, Will Smith, Max Muncy, and Teoscar Hernandez.

L.A. hosts the Detroit Tigers connected Thursday.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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