Mookie Betts struggled early in the series, going 0-for-6 and extending his postseason slump to 0-for-22. However, he turned things around in Game 3, going 4-for-9 with two home runs over the last two games.
In the first two games of the series, Betts went 0-for-6, stretching his postseason slump to 0-for-22 and just 3-for-44 overall. He flipped a switch in Game 3 and has gone 4-for-9 with two home runs in the last two games combined.
In Game 2, Padres left fielder Jurickson Profar robbed Betts of a home run, and nearly did it again in Game 3, causing Betts to start toward the dugout before realizing the ball cleared the wall for a homer.. “And then I got to see one fall. I felt kind of like Steph Curry a little bit. I just needed to see one go in and then I knew I could do it.”
Betts finally broke through in Game 3, hitting a home run off Padres right-hander Michael King. He followed it up with a single in the third inning, setting the stage for Teoscar Hernández’s grand slam. In Game 4, with Freddie Freeman sidelined, Betts stepped up again, hitting a home run and an RBI single in his first two at-bats.Since, he's gone 4-for-9 with two HRs, three RBIs, and three runs.“The whole thing comes from, I just want to do my part helping the team.
“I’m not trying to do Shohei’s job or anybody else’s job. I just want to do Mookie’s job. I wasn’t doing it. That’s where the frustration was coming from. I just wasn’t helping us.” There is no off switch for Betts. When something isn't right, he is going to put in extra work until he feels it click. That's what he did on Monday when he took 300-400 swings.“Pretty much as soon as I get to the park I’m in the cage and I don’t leave until I go back on the field,"Maren Angus-Coombs was born in Los Angeles and raised in Nashville, Tenn. She is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State and has been a sports writer since 2008.
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