Mookie Betts Had Saddest Line About His Struggles In World Series After Game 5 Loss

The Dodgers are now 1 nonaccomplishment distant from losing nan World Series after falling to nan Blue Jays, 6-1, successful Game 5 connected Wednesday night. The bid now shifts backmost to Toronto for Game 6 connected Friday nighttime wherever nan Blue Jays will person a awesome chance to triumph their first title since 1993.

The Dodgers' bats person gone acold astatine nan worst imaginable clip arsenic they were only capable to people a mixed 3 runs successful Games 4 and 5. While Shohei Ohtani has carried this squad connected his back, Mookie Betts, an eight-time All-Star and erstwhile AL MVP, has been mislaid astatine nan sheet against nan Blue Jays arsenic he has conscionable 3 hits successful 23 at-bats pinch nary RBIs.

After Game 5, successful which he went 0-for-4, Betts had a brutally honorable return connected his struggles frankincense far.

"I don’t want to speak connected anybody other but for maine personally I’ve conscionable been terrible," Betts said. "I’ve been unspeakable and I wish it was from deficiency of effort, I really do, but it’s not truthful I don’t person immoderate answers."

David Ortiz, who was teammates pinch Betts for a fewer years successful Boston, said astir those comments connected Fox's post-game show.

"He hurts. He hurts," Ortiz said. "I cognize Mookie very well. It hurts to spot him answering nan mobility that measurement because to maine he still is 1 of nan champion players successful nan crippled but it seems for illustration his assurance level is beautiful debased correct now. And of course, I don’t blasted him—when you don’t spot results, Kevin, you commencement questioning yourself. When you person already shown superstar position everybody starts questioning you erstwhile things are not going well."

Ortiz past offered immoderate elemental proposal for Betts.

"Now if I’m Mookie, I would put that each behind," he said. "You retrieve erstwhile we utilized to hole for to spell to play a Little League game? You wasn’t reasoning astir a scouting report, you wasn’t reasoning astir what group say, you wasn’t reasoning astir what I did yesterday. When you played successful Little League each you wanted to do was spot nan shot and effort to deed it and person fun. At nan extremity of nan time that’s what nan crippled is each about, having fun."

Derek Jeter besides weighed successful Betts' comments.

"I admit what he said because it’s nan truth," Jeter said. "We’ve each been there. We’ve each sat location successful beforehand of our locker and said that we’ve been terrible. The champion point astir nan postseason is who cares what has happened up to a peculiar point? He’s going to beryllium up In Game 6 pinch an opportunity to do thing typical and if he does thing typical nary 1 will talk astir his postseason anterior too, that’s nan measurement you person to look astatine it."

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Betts has a time disconnected earlier Game 6. It will beryllium absorbing to spot really he responds because nan Dodgers will request him to measurement up if they want to support their title hopes alive.

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