Star Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts’ body is “just kind of eating itself,” he said, as a mystery illness has cost him more than 20 pounds and kept him out of action this young 2025 season.

More in the report says that Betts can finally start to hold down food after nearly a week of vomiting. He will warm up in the Freeway Series game and decide if he is healthy enough to go before the game starts.

Mookie Betts has spent his entire career defying the odds, turning doubters into believers with every crack of the bat and dazzling play in the field. But right now, he’s up against an opponent that can’t be outworked or outmaneuvered: an illness that has left doctors searching for answers and the Dodgers anxiously awaiting his return to full strength.