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Los Angeles Dodger’s eight-time all-Star Mookie Betts was recently honest about his matches this season and said he feels his “season is over.”
“My season kind of over,” he told The Athletic this past weekend. “We’ll have to chalk it up for not a good season. But I can go out and help the boys win every night, do something, get an RBI, make a theater piece, do something that – I’ll have to move my focus there.”
A production dry, especially for a player of Betts’ caliber, can be tough on the psyche. But what helped his thinking has been the support of not only in the clubhouse, but those at Dodger Stadium and beyond.
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Los Angeles Dodgers Shortstop Mookie Betts, #50, runs the bases after hitting a home drive in the fifth round against Toronto Blue Jays at Dodger Stadium. (Kirby Lee/Imag- Pictures)
In fact, dodgers fans recently orchestrated an ovation for Betts to show their appreciation and support.
“I’ve never gotten an ovation from being bad,” Betts told Pakinomist Digital, while also discussing how his thinking is helped through Corona’s new “Playa Sounds,” a first-of-Sin-stroke soundtrack that merges with the iconic sounds of the ballpark and the beach. “I’ve seen it, but never in a million years I thought I would be the one who got one. But I was.
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“It’s good to know that even though I go through what I’m going through, I’m still embraced. It would be very easy for them to just write me off and say, ‘he’s done, he’s washed – x, y and z.’ It would feel terrible.
Betts enters Wednesday’s Matchup against Los Angeles Angels, hitting .242/.313/.370 with a .682 ops, 12 home runs and 53 RBI over 120 games. All of these brands are easily the worst of his career, to the point where he even recognized a potential spot on his Hall of Fame CV.
While AL MVP 2018 has fought for the hardships of the 2025 season, the support from a densely knit Dodgers Clubhouse has helped tremendously.
“I think that’s probably the most important thing outside of yourself,” he said when asked that his teammates and coaching staff are behind him. “Just knowing that no matter what you do, good or bad, your boys got you. It’s the ones that are with you literally every day. You are with these guys more than you are with your family. You are with these guys for eight months. They know everything about you – more about you than really your family does. Knowing that they have always got you and they are fighting with you are just a beautiful thing.
“It’s just tremendous to have veterans who have been through it, maybe not to the same extent I review it – or maybe worse. Knowing that their perspective helps you, their support helps you and whatever they will be there for you. It certainly helped to move with.”
Los Angeles Dodgers Shortstop Mookie Betts, #50, celebrates with teammates after hitting a home drive in the fifth round against Toronto Blue Jays at Dodger Stadium. (Kirby Lee/Imag- Pictures)
Betts has moved well recently and owned a seven-game hit line during his 12-for-30 (.400) stretch on the record during this time. He had two doubles in that stretch, and more importantly, he launched his first Homer over a month on August 8 against Toronto Blue Jays.
As Betts expressed it, “You will not turn on a mindset and then be in a different headspace than you have played for six, seven months.” However, the intensity only goes up as Dodgers is in a tight NL West race with San Diego Padres tied up on the division that comes into the game on Wednesday. As a defense of the World Series champions, Dodgers obviously wants to defend the title coming in October.
It is unprotected territory for Betts, but knowing that he has the team and the city of Los Angeles behind him is perhaps to help him turn the corner at the right time with the autumn period that comes into consideration.
Entering flow mode with Corona
When Betts works his way, having a calm, yet intense mindset has the key, especially when the postal season comes around.
Betts helped Corona, the official “Cerveza” of MLB, creating “Playa Sounds”, choosing certain moments from the post season to pair with soothing beach sounds that help him get into the “flow mode.”
Los Angeles Dodgers Star Mookie Betts collaborated with Corona to deliver “Playa Sounds”, a first-in-the-stroke soundtrack dedicated to helping him and fans get into a “flow mode.” (Corona)
“I was able to choose a few moments from big swings, big hits, big catches in the postal season, and then you match them with the beach sounds. These waves crashing, just put you right in the middle where you’re ready for something intense, but you’re also relaxed to do what it is,” Betts explained. “Because you don’t want to be too intense when you go into these intense moments – you won’t fight fire with fire. So I really feel like these sounds put you right in between.
“It has really helped and puts me in a good mindset.”
