When David Ortiz asked Mookie Betts if the right fielder expected to spend 12 years with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Betts acknowledged he didn’t always see it unfolding that way.
Betts, speaking with his former teammate Ortiz in an Instagram video Tuesday before Game 6 of the World Series, said he believed he’d stay in Boston long term.
“I had initially thought that I was gonna be a Red Sox for life,” said Betts, who signed a 12-year, $365-million contract extension with the Dodgers in July, “but God always has a plan for things. I was just kind of following what He told me to do.