Mookie Betts started to feel sick the day before the team left for Japan but the shortstop still made the trip. He went through a workout but quickly became tired.

Shortstop Mookie Betts has returned to Los Angeles to continue recovering from an illness that will cause him to miss the Dodgers' first two games of the regular season at the Tokyo Dome.

Nashville native Mookie Betts, a star with the Dodgers, has left Japan where the team is scheduled to open the 2025 MLB season because of an illness.