Dodgers' Mookie Betts will miss Tokyo Series vs. Cubs with lingering illness

Mookie Betts volition miss the Los Angeles Dodgers' Tokyo Series against the Chicago Cubs owed to an illness. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts announced the determination connected Sunday night.

Roberts said that Betts is starting to consciousness amended but has mislaid astir 15 pounds and is inactive trying to get rehydrated and summation strength. Roberts added that the eight-time All-Star mightiness alert backmost to the United States earlier the squad successful an effort to remainder and hole for the home opener connected March 27.

The Cubs and Dodgers unfastened the Major League Baseball play connected Tuesday astatine the Tokyo Dome. A 2nd crippled is connected Wednesday.

"He's not going to play successful these 2 games," Roberts said. "When you're dehydrated, that's what opens a idiosyncratic up to brushed insubstantial injuries. We're precise mindful of that."

Roberts said Miguel Rojas volition commencement astatine shortstop successful Betts' spot for the 2 games astatine the Tokyo Dome.

Betts went done a airy workout connected Sunday, but became bushed quickly. He started suffering from flu-like symptoms successful Arizona, the time earlier the squad near for Japan. He inactive made the agelong level trip, but hasn't recovered arsenic rapidly arsenic hoped.

Betts is making the full-time modulation to shortstop this play aft playing astir of his vocation successful close tract and 2nd base. The 2018 AL MVP deed .289 with 19 homers and 75 RBIs past season, helping the Dodgers triumph the World Series.

Reporting by The Associated Press.

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