Not all is right in Dodgers' outfield

Betts meets with Roberts, Friedman after Hernández's poor defense

- KEVIN BAXTER

JUSTIN EDMONDS Getty Images MOOKIE BETTS was a Gold Glove outfielder earlier in his career, and the Dodgers could move him back to right field in place of Teoscar Hernández.

The half-empty Dodger clubhouse was so quiet you could hear a winning streak snap Monday. But amid the silence there was one conversation that spoke volumes.

After a 4-3 walk-off loss to the last-place Colorado Rockies - a loss set up by two poor plays from right fielder Teoscar Hernández - Mookie Betts met with manager Dave Roberts and Andrew Friedman, the Dodgers’ president of baseball operations, in Roberts' office.

Betts, who remained the Dodgers' shortstop when the lineup for Tuesday's game was announced, is a six-time Gold Glove winner in right field. Hernández is not. On Monday, Hernández threw to the wrong base in the third inning, allowing the Rockies to score their second run, and in the ninth he was unable to hold Ezequiel Tovar's bloop double. Two pitches later, Warming Bernabel bounced a single up to middle, scoring Tovar to end the game.

The Betts conversation afterward was private. But the circumstances that led to it were not. Clearly the bullpen is not the Dodgers' only problem.