{"id":19053,"date":"2026-06-30T20:08:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=19053"},"modified":"2026-06-30T20:08:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T20:08:02","slug":"dodgers-mookie-betts-is-back-to-normal-after-adjusting-his-work-to-fit-the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=19053","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers\u2019 Mookie Betts is back to \u2018normal\u2019 after adjusting his work to fit the present"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>WEST SACRAMENTO \u2014\u00a0If Mookie Betts is back, no one wants to proclaim it \u2013 least of all him.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=19051\">LeBron James rumors persist as Deandre Ayton opts in with Lakers, Marcus Smart opts out<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, it ain\u2019t time yet,\u201d the Dodgers\u2019 shortstop said Sunday after a multi-hit game, including a key two-run single, in a 4-2 victory over the San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n<p>Batting under .200 as recently as June 13, Betts has hit .368 (21 for 57) with a 1.094 OPS in 14 games through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s baseball. We can\u2019t say that. It can go sideways really quick,\u201d first baseman Freddie Freeman agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, he\u2019s swinging the bat really well. I\u2019m not going to be the one that jinxes it either. But he\u2019s confident in himself, missile-ing balls into left-center. \u2026 So we\u2019re trending upward. How about that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The most Betts will say is that he feels \u201cnormal\u201d after two years of setbacks \u2013 like the norovirus he contracted at the start of the 2025 season or the broken hand that cost him two months during the 2024 season or the oblique injury that sidelined him for five weeks earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p>It is a new \u201cnormal,\u201d though. Betts acknowledges that his rebirth this season has come with accommodations to his age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just mostly learned that all the stuff that I used to do, doesn\u2019t apply now,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I really had to focus on who I am today, and trying to fix that person instead of trying to use the 27-year-old guy to apply to the 33-year-old guy. It just doesn\u2019t work. The game\u2019s not the same, and I\u2019m not the same. So I really had to learn who I was and be the best version of who I am today.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 27-year-old Betts would spend hours in the batting cage, searching to perfect his swing \u2013 the same work ethic that drove him when making the unprecedented mid-career switch to shortstop. The work ethic is the same, but the focus of that work has changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still do that,\u201d he said of the excessive cage work. \u201cBut I think at that time I was just trying to find a cue, to take 1,000 swings with a cue to see if it works. And now I don\u2019t have to take that many swings, just because I\u2019m literally starting from zero every day, instead of trying to use yesterday to try and build on it.\u00a0 I just start from zero every day and build it up. It\u2019s the easiest way for it to become the same every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hitting coaches really helped me with it. Freddie obviously has helped me with it. But yeah, it was a \u2026 collective effort, with this whole thing. I\u2019ve got an amazing team around me, and they support me. Finally got to a good spot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=19049\">Angels support Mike Trout\u2019s All-Star candidacy with fashion statement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite the overall worst offensive numbers of his career last year, he turned things around over the final two months of the season when he declared his individual season over and stopped grinding mentally over the failures, instead focusing day-to-day on contributing in some way to each win.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s different,\u201d Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said of this year\u2019s turnaround. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot more season left than where he was last year, where he kind of wrote it off to play for the team. And I think right now he\u2019s in a much better place than he was even last year, mentally with the swing, all of it. So he\u2019s in a good spot. I see no reason why we can\u2019t keep this going.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>TEO TIME<\/h4>\n<p>Outfielder Teoscar Hernandez returned to the Dodgers\u2019 lineup on Monday after missing 28 games with a left hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel good. I feel ready,\u201d Hernandez said before the game. \u201cI feel that I can go out there and produce for the team and help the team keep winning. The team is playing really good right now, so I don\u2019t think they really need me in the lineup. But I\u2019m gonna do my best and everything in my power to keep producing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez went 3 for 14 on a four-game rehab assignment with Triple-A Oklahoma City \u2013 but all three hits were home runs, one in each of his first three games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really good. Not the way it was before I got hurt, but it\u2019s really close,\u201d Hernandez said of his swing. \u201cObviously, for me, more important is to swing at good pitches. I was able to do that there, hit the ball and pitches that are in the strike zone and not swing at the ones out of the strike zone. I think that\u2019s for me, that\u2019s more important about my swing than anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roberts said Hernandez will start Monday and Tuesday against left-handed starting pitchers for the A\u2019s and will probably get the day off Wednesday when right-hander J.T. Ginn is scheduled to start for the A\u2019s.<\/p>\n<h4>ALSO<\/h4>\n<p>In order to make room on the active roster for Hernandez, Ryan Ward was returned to Triple-A. In his first extended stay in the major leagues, Ward was 10 for 49 (.204) with four doubles, three home runs and 11 RBIs in 18 games.<\/p>\n<h4>UP NEXT<\/h4>\n<p>Dodgers (LHP Justin Wrobleski, 9-2, 2.71 ERA) at A\u2019s (LHP Jeffrey Springs, 3-7, 5.52 ERA), Tuesday, 6:40 p.m., SportsNet LA, 570 AM<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=19047\">Ducks trade away rights to captain Radko Gudas<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betts was hitting below .200 as recently as June 13, but has been on a tear since then. 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