WASHINGTON — Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts left the Dodgers’ game against the Nationals on Saturday with lower back pain on his right side, according to the team.
He walked in his first plate appearance and scored on Freddie Freeman’s two-run double in the first inning. But when the Dodgers took the field in the bottom half of the inning, Miguel Rojas jogged out to short.
The severity of Betts’ injury was not immediately clear.
Betts entered this year at full strength after being weakened at the beginning of last year by illness. Betts embraced new training methods, with an emphasis on stretching. And he was looking forward to seeing the effects javelin-throwing would have on his throws to first from on plays in the hole.
Betts got off to a slow start at the plate. But in the Dodgers’ 13-6 win Friday against the Nationals, he recorded his first home run and first two-hit game of the season.
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