Mookie Betts lowered his eyes and paused momentarily while searching for the right arrangement of words, wanting to make sure his point was clear in the Los Angeles Dodgers visiting clubhouse.

Rushed into to duty previously, Betts spent the winter shoring up his defensive skills: “Anything you do in life takes ...

Mookie Betts lowered his eyes ... “I think I would have been really good," Betts says, “but I never had the opportunity. I couldn’t throw then either. Nobody told me how to throw then.

Sometime around mid-August last year, Mookie Betts convened with ... who had intermittently helped guide Betts through the transition, sought him out. He shook Betts' hand, told him how much ...

Mookie Betts lowered his eyes ... “I think I would have been really good," Betts says, “but I never had the opportunity. I couldn’t throw then either. Nobody told me how to throw then.