Mookie Betts isn’t taking any possibilities with issues that may go bump within the evening in Milwaukee this week. As a substitute, Betts informed reporters Monday he’s staying at an area Airbnb as a result of the Dodgers’ crew lodge is rumored to be haunted.
For the second consecutive yr, 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 needs no a part of it.
The previous Most Useful Participant has hung out on the Pfister Resort prior to now and famous that he didn’t have any interactions with something paranormal. Nonetheless, each little noise made him nervous. He always felt spooked.
“You possibly can inform me what occurred after,” he mentioned final yr. “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 mentioned when requested about it this yr.
After lacking the final eight weeks on account of a fractured hand and a great evening’s sleep away from the paranormal, Betts was spectacular in his first recreation again from the injured listing on Monday evening.
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 sporting molded cleats, however he instantly switched after the strikeout.
“The dust was simply too arduous,” Betts mentioned. “I made a idiot of myself, nevertheless it was strictly as a result of I couldn’t grip.”
Betts acquired 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 evening.
“Freddy Peralta is a heck of a pitcher,” supervisor Dave Roberts mentioned. “To have the evening he did towards Freddy was big.”
Betts didn’t want a rehab task and he seemed like he didn’t miss a beat.
“With the ability to pencil his identify within the lineup, we actually acquired quite a bit higher,” Roberts mentioned of Betts earlier than Monday’s recreation. “We’re form 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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