{"id":781117,"date":"2026-05-08T03:49:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/781117\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T03:49:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:49:28","slug":"dodgers-mookie-betts-set-to-begin-rehab-stint-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/781117\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers&#8217; Mookie Betts set to begin rehab stint Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ESPN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/origin-espn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, May 8, 2026 2:33AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33039\/mookie-betts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mookie Betts<\/a> is set to begin a rehab assignment Friday for the Dodgers&#8217; Triple-A affiliate, putting him on track to return to the big league team next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Oklahoma City Dodgers said Thursday that Betts is scheduled to play for them Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The shortstop has been on the injured list since April 5 because of a right oblique strain suffered a day earlier on a check swing during an at-bat. The team expected him to miss about four to six weeks at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Betts was hitting .179 with two home runs and seven RBIs through the Dodgers&#8217; first eight games before the injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Dodgers open a seven-game homestand Friday, playing three against the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-braves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Atlanta Braves<\/a> and then four against the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sf\/san-francisco-giants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Francisco Giants<\/a>.br\/]<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, May 8, 2026 2:33AM Mookie Betts is set to begin a rehab assignment Friday for the Dodgers&#8217;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":781118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[319655,35270,5723,2502,1266,50,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-781117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-319655","9":"tag-betts-mookie","10":"tag-espn","11":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116536919235685212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}