Mookie Betts isn’t taking any probabilities with issues which may go bump within the night time in Milwaukee this week. As an alternative, Betts informed reporters Monday he’s staying at a neighborhood Airbnb as a result of the Dodgers’ crew resort is rumored to be haunted.
For the second consecutive 12 months, Betts has opted not to stick with the crew on the Pfister Resort. The Pfister Resort was inbuilt 1893 and has lengthy been rumored to be haunted by ghosts. Gamers for different franchises declare to have skilled ghost encounters.
Betts desires no a part of it.
The previous Most Helpful Participant has hung out on the Pfister Resort up to now and famous that he didn’t have any interactions with something paranormal. Nonetheless, each little noise made him nervous. He continually felt spooked.
“You possibly can inform me what occurred after,” he stated final 12 months. “I simply don’t wish to discover out myself.”
His views on the paranormal are nonetheless the identical.
“No. That ain’t going to vary,” he stated when requested about it this 12 months.
After lacking the final eight weeks on account of a fractured hand and a superb night time’s sleep away from the paranormal, Betts was spectacular in his first recreation again from the injured checklist on Monday night time.
Betts completed 2-for-4 with a house run, a run scored and three runs batted in.
In his first at-bat, Betts made a idiot of himself by putting out on a Freddy Peralta slider that despatched him flying throughout the plate and falling after whiffing. Betts started the sport carrying molded cleats, however he instantly switched after the strikeout.
“The dust was simply too exhausting,” Betts stated. “I made a idiot of myself, however it was strictly as a result of I couldn’t grip.”
Betts bought his revenge within the third inning when he crushed a two-run homer over the left-field wall. He added a run-scoring single and stolen base within the seventh inning to cap off his night time.
“Freddy Peralta is a heck of a pitcher,” supervisor Dave Roberts stated. “To have the night time he did towards Freddy was big.”
Betts didn’t want a rehab project and he appeared like he didn’t miss a beat.
“Having the ability to pencil his identify within the lineup, we definitely bought loads higher,” Roberts stated of Betts earlier than Monday’s recreation. “We’re type of attending to the purpose the place we’re placing guys of their respective spots within the order, which provides size and makes us a greater ballclub.”
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