Mookie Betts hit a game-winning, three-run homer in the 10th inning to lift the Dodgers to an 8-5 win over the Detroit Tigers on Friday night a few hours after Los Angeles received its 2024 World Series rings.

Mookie Betts hit two home runs, including a walk-off, three-run home run in the 10th inning to lift the Dodgers to an 8-5 victory over the Detroit Tigers.

After a massive showing in Game 2 against the Tigers, Mookie Betts has been given the day off by Dodgers manager Dave Roberts.

Betts played five innings in the field in an exhibition against the Angels after a gnarly stomach virus kept him out for weeks.

He hit one such homer in 2023, then homered in four straight games last March between Seoul and Los Angeles, before his two home runs on Friday. Playing real games in March is a relatively new phenomenon in Major League Baseball,

Just days before the Dodgers opened the domestic portion of their schedule, Mookie Betts was in poor shape. He had fallen sick ahead of the team's Cactus League finale, an undiagnosed illness that kep

The Dodgers considered shutting down Mookie Betts to begin the year after dropping 20 pounds due to a stomach virus. That would've been foolish.

Mookie Betts missed the Los Angeles Dodgers first two games in Tokyo last week because he was fighting an ongoing stomach illness. The former MVP said he lost 15 pounds. Betts' availability for the home opener against the Detroit Tigers was unknown throughout the week,

Mookie Betts is no longer ailing, finally able to keep food down and eating up a storm to pack on the weight he dropped while battling a stomach virus during the first two weeks of the season.