Mookie Betts, who turned 32 on Monday, wants to celebrate his birthday with some postseason hitting.
Betts went 0-for-4 in the Los Angeles Dodgers \' 10-2 loss in Game 2 of the NLDS on Sunday. He is 2-for-31 in the club\'s past three postseason series.
He\'s also hitless in his last 22 playoff at-bats, tied for the fourth-longest postseason hitless-at-bat streak by a former MVP.
Dave Roberts says he believes Betts\' shortcomings in previous postseasons are starting to \"bleed in\" to his current at-bats.
\"I\'ll have a conversation with him,\" Roberts said of Betts. \"The fact is you can\'t change the last \'X\' amount of postseason games. I understand the burden a player might have. But all anyone is concerned about is right now and how to best prepare yourself mentally for tomorrow night and the first at-bat. So that\'s going to be basically my message.\"
Betts estimated taking somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 swings during Monday\'s workout, including multiple rounds in which he purposely drove pitches to right-center field off a high-velocity pitching machine at Petco Park.
\"If there\'s another way,\" he said, \"please let me know.\"