Sources: Dodgers' Betts out due to fractured toe

LOS ANGELES -- Mookie Betts stubbed a toed successful his near ft during an off-the-field incidental and missed the opener of the Los Angeles Dodgers' highly anticipated bid against the New York Yankees connected Friday.

Betts is not expected to spell connected the injured list, according to Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, but helium volition not commencement against the Yankees connected Saturday oregon Sunday. Roberts said the anticipation is that Betts volition instrumentality to the lineup soon thereafter.

"For me, close now, it's conscionable day-to-day," Roberts said aft the Dodgers' 8-5, come-from-behind win.

The incident, which affected the extremity of Betts' 2nd toe, was believed to person occurred precocious Wednesday night, aft the Dodgers returned from a six-game roadworthy trip, erstwhile Betts banged his toed against a portion of furnishings astatine his house. Betts called Roberts to pass him astir his toed connected Friday morning, past underwent X-rays astatine Dodger Stadium aboriginal that afternoon.

Those X-rays revealed a fracture, a root told ESPN, confirming what Betts told the Los Angeles Times aft Friday's game. The Dodgers' grooming unit volition walk the play attempting to get the swelling down connected his toe. At this point, the Dodgers don't judge helium tin marque the wounded immoderate worse by playing connected it.

Said Roberts: "It's going to beryllium 1 of those situations per his [pain] tolerance."

Betts' wounded isn't the Dodgers' astir superior astatine the moment. Late-inning reliever Evan Phillips, who was rehabbing a forearm injury, didn't consciousness close playing drawback earlier this week and volition acquisition Tommy John country adjacent week, knocking him retired for each of 2025 and astir of 2026.

Phillips, 30, was released by the Baltimore Orioles successful August 2021 and designated for duty by the Tampa Bay Rays little than 2 weeks later. The Dodgers picked him up and turned him into a invaluable late-game option. From 2022 to 2024, Phillips posted a 2.21 ERA and 0.92 WHIP, saved 44 games and struck retired 206 batters successful 179 regular-season innings.

But Phillips dealt with limb issues during past year's postseason tally and was near disconnected the team's World Series roster. He past went connected the IL due to the fact that of a rotator cuff strain successful the mediate of March, returned a period later, notched 7 scoreless appearances, past went backmost connected the IL connected May 7 due to the fact that of what the squad called forearm discomfort. Platelet-rich-plasma injections did not take. Phillips ne'er got better.

"As we started getting into it, it wasn't truly responding," Dodgers wide manager Brandon Gomes said. "We felt similar this could beryllium a possibility, truthful arsenic helium got deeper into the process and it wasn't truly getting better, the determination to bash it was beauteous overmuch evident with our information." The nonaccomplishment of Phillips is coupled with the Dodgers having 4 different high-leverage relievers connected the IL -- Brusdar Graterol, Blake Treinen, Kirby Yates and Michael Kopech, each of whom are right-handed.

The Dodgers tried to backfill immoderate of that extent by trading for erstwhile All-Star person Alexis Diaz connected Thursday. But Diaz, who struggled truthful severely this play that the Cincinnati Reds optioned him to Triple-A, volition initially enactment retired of the Dodgers' outpouring grooming analyzable successful Glendale, Ariz.

The Dodgers besides person 3 starting pitchers -- Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow and Roki Sasaki -- recovering from enarthrosis injuries, with Shohei Ohtani not expected to articulation the rotation until sometime aft the All-Star break.

The lineup, astatine least, had been healthy. Until now.

Betts, 32, got disconnected to a dilatory commencement but was inactive slashing .254/.338/.405 with 8 location runs and 5 stolen bases portion slotting betwixt the hot-hitting Ohtani and Freddie Freeman successful the No. 2 spot. More notably, Betts had proven to beryllium a susceptible large league shortstop aft moving during the offseason astatine the position.

The anticipation is that the toed wounded doesn't acceptable him backmost overmuch longer than the remainder of this weekend.

In the meantime, Miguel Rojas volition proceed to get starts astatine shortstop.

"It's a bully portion astir having depth," Gomes said. "Keep the bid moving."