Have been a few difficult weeks Los Angeles Dodgers Player Mookie Betts, who has fought with an unidentified stomach disease that avoided him from the team’s games to the team in the Tokyo Series.
According to the MlbBetts was allocated to the original line of the Sunday Sunday series, which saw the Dodgers defeated the Los Angeles Angels 7-1.
Continue reading everything we know about Betts’ health struggles.
Has lost almost 20 pounds since spring formation
Although Betts’s diagnosis is unclear, the camper says he has been unable to eat solid food for almost two weeks. He first recalled that he noticed symptoms that reached the final game of the Dodgers cactus league on March 11. While in Tokyo, he received an IV and since then he has been able to maintain the liquids, but other foods have affected his stomach. It Los Angeles Times He reported that his new restrictions on his diet had lowered his weight from 175 to 157 pounds since the spring training.
“I mean, I feel very well,” Betts said, according to the MLB. “The same, my body feels great. I have been able to work. I have been able to do almost all the less food, which is strange. So the symptoms have disappeared, I just have to know how to get my stomach calm.”
Betts, who described his body as “a kind of food,” according to the Los Angeles Times, said he has done a blood job and all the vital tests have returned clean. He also shared that he takes nine medicines. Betts shared that if his problems persist, he will follow other tests to find out what’s going on.
Betts is expected to stand in Monday’s game at Angel Stadium against the Angels. And it is unlikely to play Thursday’s game against Detroit Tigers.
“It’s hard to understand not to eat and play a game,” he said. “So it seems that I will only be light a little. Maybe I play a little on the climb for the beginning of the season. But no, I just want to play, man. I’m tired of sitting, tired of throwing -me, tired of doing all this. I really want to play.”
According to Los Angeles Times, Betts has had no stomach problems.
Betts wants to go back to the field
With the day of opening of the MLB on Thursday’s corner, Los Angeles Times reported that Betts wants to overcome their stomach problems and return to the pitch, but not if returning too soon it hinders the team’s performance, which won its two games in the Tokyo series without it or increases its health risk.
“You are already playing the climb,” Betts said. “I weigh 157 pounds, and it’s a lower way … I’m not saying I don’t want to do it. Sure, if that’s what you need, but it makes sense logically? And this is the question that we really need to answer.”
