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No longer sick, Dodgers’ Mookie Betts hits a pair of ‘160-pound homers’ as he works to gain weight

  • On Friday night, the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Detroit Tigers 8-5 in 10 innings, marking their fourth consecutive win to start the season.
  • Prior to the game, the Dodgers, as defending World Series champions, received their 2024 World Series rings in a ceremony where Jack Flaherty, now a Tigers starter, was also present.
  • The Tigers took a 5-3 lead in the top of the 10th after Dillon Dingler's two-run triple, while earlier in the game, Gleyber Torres homered off Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who had a career-high 10 strikeouts.
  • Dodgers left fielder Michael Conforto misplayed a ball hit by Dingler in the 10th, leading to two runs, and a safe call at home in the ninth was overturned, denying the Tigers a lead.
  • Mookie Betts, who had been battling a stomach virus and lost 15 pounds, hit a game-winning three-run home run in the 10th inning off Beau Brieske, securing the Dodgers' victory and their best start since 1981.
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No longer sick, Dodgers' Mookie Betts hits a pair of '160-pound homers' as he works to gain weight

Mookie Betts is no longer ailing, finally able to keep food down and eating up a storm to pack on the weight that he dropped while battling a stomach virus during the first two weeks of the season.

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hometownstation.com broke the news in on Friday, March 28, 2025.
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