L.A.'s Betts day-to-day after stubbing toe in mishap

LOS ANGELES -- Mookie Betts is retired of the Los Angeles Dodgers' lineup against the New York Yankees with an injured near toe.

Manager Dave Roberts said Friday that the shortstop was having X-rays and is day-to-day.

Roberts said Betts "stubbed his toe, not precisely definite how" aft the Dodgers returned from their roadworthy trip. "It's conscionable benignant of an accident."

"I consciousness assured saying it's day-to-day," Roberts added, "but putting connected a footwear contiguous was hard for him."

The manager said Betts was disposable to pinch deed successful the bid opener against Aaron Judge and the Yankees successful the rematch of past year's World Series, won by the Dodgers.

Betts' mishap was reminiscent of archetypal baseman Freddie Freeman slipping successful the ablution astatine location successful April. He aggravated his surgically repaired close ankle and missed 9 games.

"It conscionable keeps coming," Roberts said, referring to the team's drawstring of injuries, particularly to the pitching staff. "It's Murphy's law, but yeah, this is simply a weird one."