The Los Angeles Dodgers had an incredible 2025 MLB season.
For the second consecutive campaign, they ended the year as World Series champs.
They weren't without their oddities, though.
In fact, they go down as having the third-weirdest injuries of the year, as determined by Jayson Stark of The Athletic.
He gave that honor the tandem of Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman. Both got hurt in the bathroom in 2025.
Freeman's injury came first, as described by Stark:
Freeman couldn’t even make it through the first week of the season without his own bathroom fiasco. Here we always thought of this guy as the cleanest player in baseball. Next thing we knew, he was heading for the injured list after spraining his surgically repaired ankle with a dreaded “shower mishap.” Which he said was really a technical term for: slipping in the shower. Much to the amusement of his wife, Chelsea, apparently.
“Chelsea actually made the joke: ‘I thought I was going to deal with this when you’re 70, not when you’re 35,’” he reported.
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Betts then got hurt in May, again described by Stark:
In late May, Mookie fractured a toe in the darkness during a harrowing nighttime journey to the bathroom, missed four games, then announced: “I’m sure we all have some fractured toes from stuff like this.” Do we, though?
The Dodgers got both their veteran superstars back by the games that really mattered.
But they'll likely all want to watch their steps in bathrooms in 2026, just in case.
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