The Latest Breaking News from Mookie Betts

"Can I use your eyes?"

LOS ANGELES – Never underestimate the restorative powers of a good night’s sleep.

Of course the Red Sox weren’t going to fire Chaim Bloom or Alex Cora.

He is part of the team, but he is not part of the team.

MIAMI — Getting started that early on a Sunday morning in South Florida should only involve mojitos and an omelet station.

MIAMI — A very patchwork pitching plan, and some very shaky defense in critical moments, almost cost the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night.

MIAMI — The thought of having to use a bullpen day on Friday, the Miami Marlins’ first game of a four-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, did not necessarily excite Don Mattingly on Friday. There’s an inherit risk with the approach. A bad outing by even one or two…

LOS ANGELES — Freddie Freeman, working stiff? The moniker would hardly seem to apply to a guy who makes $27 million a year, flies charter, stays in five-star hotels and receives $100 per diem on the road while playing baseball for a living.

LOS ANGELES — The Astros and Yankees in Los Angeles. Mookie Betts returning to Fenway Park. And, for the first time since interleague play was introduced in 1997, the Dodgers facing all 29 other Major League Baseball clubs at least once over the course of the year.