Mookie Betts started to feel sick the day before the team left for Japan but the shortstop still made the trip. He went through a workout but quickly became tired.

Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts, an Overton High School graduate, has left Tokyo and will miss his team's two-game series there against the Chicago Cubs because of an undisclosed illness that has caused him to lose 15 pounds, according to multiple reports.