Dodgers star Mookie Betts sustains freak toe injury while walking to bathroom

The Los Angeles Dodgers were without prima Mookie Betts successful the team’s 8-5 triumph implicit the New York Yankees owed a freak toed wounded helium reportedly sustained walking to a bathroom. 

Betts, 32, said helium banged his toed into a partition arsenic helium walked to the bath successful the dark, according to the Los Angeles Times. 

X-Rays revealed Betts fractured the toe, according to ESPN. 

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Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts against the Arizona Diamondbacks astatine Chase Field May 9, 2025.  (Mark J. Rebilas/Imagn Images)

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Betts volition miss games against the Yankees Saturday and Sunday, but helium doesn’t expect the eight-time All-Star to spell connected the injured list. 

"I consciousness assured saying it’s time to day," Roberts said, "but putting connected a footwear contiguous was hard for him."

Betts is having a down year, comparative to his vocation numbers. The 2018 AL MVP has a .254 batting mean with 8 location runs and 31 RBIs and a .742 OPS successful 53 games this season.

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Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts during the sixth inning astatine Dodger Stadium May 17, 2025.  (Jonathan Hui/Imagn Images)

In his 12-year career, Betts has a batting mean of .293 and an .891 OPS. 

Betts’ freak wounded is not the archetypal for the Dodgers this season. First baseman Freddie Freeman had a akin incidental that caused him to miss 9 games aft helium slipped successful the ablution and aggravated his surgically repaired close ankle.

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Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts hits a azygous successful the sixth inning against the New York Mets astatine Citi Field May 24, 2025.  (Wendell Cruz/Imagn Images)

"Mookie’s toe, that’s benignant of freaky, similar what happened to me," Freeman said aft the Dodgers' win. "You deed the velocity bumps on the way. We did it past year, and we did each right. Hopefully, we tin bash that again this year."

The Yankees (35-21) and Dodgers (35-22) volition play the 2nd crippled of their three-game bid Saturday astatine 7:15 p.m. ET connected FOX.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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