Dodgers News: Mookie Betts Has Harsh Review For Home Run Derby

This sort of thing just isn't his bag.

Mookie Betts can check that one off the bucket list. The All-Star Dodger outfielder participated in his first Home Run Derby... and came in dead last among all participants.

Betts hit 11 home runs. He didn't take a timeout. He got a bonus 30 seconds despite not hitting a single homer the requisite 440 feet or further. 

All the while he had a smile on his face for his first, and apparently last Home Run Derby.

“The whole thing is super cool," Betts told the LA Times after bowing out in the first round. It got my juices flowing a little bit. That’s always fun,” Betts said. “The main thing was that, this is not for me. That’s the best takeaway I got.”

The slugger admitted he doesn't have the right approach to do damage in an exhibition like the Home Run Derby.

"I just hit line drives, man. For me, it’s very hard.”

His Dodgers teammate J.D. Martinez agreed.

“I tell him all the time, ‘Bro, whenever you suck, you hit homers in BP. I don’t consider Mookie as a ‘power hitter.’ I consider him an elite contact hitter, who hits the ball the right way.”

Betts hitting home runs in games for the Dodgers is certainly more important than him putting on a power show when the hits don't mean anything. Mookie leads LA with 26 home runs at the All-Star break, tied for third-most in baseball.

The 30-year-old will be batting third and playing in center field for the National League team in tonight's All-Star Game on FOX.