Mookie at second in the N.L. park in Series?

Mookie Betts at second base when the World Series shifts to Los Angeles or Milwaukee for Game 3?

Red Sox manager Alex Cora won't rule it out. Then again, he says he's just joking about putting his All-Star right fielder at second in order to keep J.D. Martinez and Jackie Bradley Jr. in the lineup with no designated hitter in the National League park in the Fall Classic.

Mookie Betts at second base? Alex Cora:

“I don’t know man, he already played second during the regular season. There’s always a chance, I guess."
— Evan Drellich (@EvanDrellich) October 20, 2018

“I was just joking with him, 'There’s a reason you’re the right fielder’” Cora on Betts. Betts will take ground balls there. Sox are entertaining the conversation
— Evan Drellich (@EvanDrellich) October 20, 2018

Betts, one of the best defensive outfielders in baseball, was a second baseman throughout his minor league career. He last played there on Aug. 3 against the Yankees (see below) when acting manager Ron Roenicke, the Sox bench coach, (Cora had been ejected) moved him there on an emergency basis after Ian Kinsler was hurt. He still takes grounders there before games and previously played there in September 2014.

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