Overview

• Mookie Betts did not travel to Boston and sat out Friday’s opener as he addresses an undisclosed personal matter.
• Dodgers manager Dave Roberts expects Betts to arrive around Saturday’s first pitch but has yet to commit to his spot in the lineup.
• Shohei Ohtani’s franchise-tying streak of five straight games with a home run came to an end, though he still leads the National League with 37 homers.
• Teoscar Hernandez’s two-run homer in the eighth inning helped secure a 5-2 win over the Red Sox, offsetting Betts’s absence.
• Emmet Sheehan delivered five solid innings and the bullpen provided four scoreless frames to maintain Los Angeles’s momentum.