Mookie Betts isn’t taking any possibilities with issues that may go bump within the evening in Milwaukee this week. As a substitute, Betts advised reporters Monday he’s staying at an area Airbnb as a result of the ’ crew resort is rumored to be haunted.
For the second consecutive yr, Betts has opted not to stick with the crew on the Pfister Resort. The Pfister Resort was inbuilt 1893 and has lengthy been rumored to be haunted by ghosts. Gamers for different franchises declare to have skilled ghost encounters.
Betts desires no a part of it.
The previous Most Priceless Participant has hung out on the Pfister Resort previously and famous that he didn’t have any interactions with something paranormal. Nonetheless, each little noise made him nervous. He always felt spooked.
“You may inform me what occurred after,” he mentioned final yr. “I simply don’t wish to discover out myself.”
His views on the paranormal are nonetheless the identical.
“No. That ain’t going to alter,” he mentioned when requested about it this yr.
After lacking the final eight weeks resulting from a fractured hand and a great evening’s sleep away from the paranormal, Betts was spectacular in his first sport again from the injured record on Monday evening.
Betts completed 2-for-4 with a house run, a run scored and three runs batted in.
In his first at-bat, Betts made a idiot of himself by putting out on a Freddy Peralta slider that despatched him flying throughout the plate and falling after whiffing. Betts started the sport sporting molded cleats, however he instantly switched after the strikeout.
“The dust was simply too onerous,” Betts mentioned. “I made a idiot of myself, however it was strictly as a result of I couldn’t grip.”
Betts obtained his revenge within the third inning when he crushed a two-run homer over the left-field wall. He added a run-scoring single and stolen base within the seventh inning to cap off his evening.
“Freddy Peralta is a heck of a pitcher,” supervisor Dave Roberts mentioned. “To have the evening he did towards Freddy was large.”
Betts didn’t want a rehab project and he appeared like he didn’t miss a beat.
“With the ability to pencil his identify within the lineup, we actually obtained lots higher,” Roberts mentioned of Betts earlier than Monday’s sport. “We’re form of attending to the purpose the place we’re placing guys of their respective spots within the order, which provides size and makes us a greater ballclub.”
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