Overview
- The Dodgers removed Mookie Betts from the starting lineup before Wednesday’s game and listed a wrist injury as the reason.
- Manager Dave Roberts said the club plans to err on the side of caution rather than immediately escalate the issue.
- Veteran infielder Miguel Rojas was inserted at shortstop and slotted to bat seventh in Betts’s place.
- Betts had returned from an earlier oblique-related injured list and showed an offensive uptick, including a 3-for-5 game and improved metrics such as a .244 average, 103 wRC+ and 1.3 fWAR.
- There is no public timetable for Betts’s return and the team’s cautious approach raises concern that the wrist problem could interrupt his regained momentum and affect lineup stability.