Mookie Betts saluted Lakers star LeBron James after each of his two home runs in the Dodgers' night game Saturday night against the Marlins, calling it 'kind of a thank you and shoutout to him.'
, who was sitting in a suite with his family on his bobblehead night. When he hit his 34th homer of the season in the fifth, Betts also saluted James as he crossed home plate, and the NBA star tipped his cap to him.
"It was kind of a thank you and shoutout to him," Betts said."He's done it during his game, so I returned the favor."Betts said they've met a couple of times and talked a few times, and the salute was spur-of-the-moment."I think that was intentional," Roberts said of the salute."Hitting a baseball is as hard as anything there is to do. I just think Mookie had another gear tonight to show out. We were all beneficiaries.
"He was awesome," Roberts said of Urías."The energy tonight, he responded. The City Connect jerseys. LeBron in the house. Crowd really energetic and he just fed off it. Tonight it was the Mookie and Julio show."
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