“With him not being here, I think it was just a matter of showing that we’re united with him and Kayla at this time,” the rookie relief pitcher, who is also Alex’s daily catch partner, told The Athletic. “It’s just the little thing that we could do to show him that we care and we’re thinking about him.”
He continued, “We could really use him here, but at the end of the day, we’re a family. So we’re going to help support him however we can.”
While Alex has not spoken out since the organization confirmed his extended absence on Oct. 23, and the 29-year-old has been left off the team’s roster for the World Series, which is set to resume Oct. 29 with game five.
“We just didn’t want to have any potential for any kind of pressure,” Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman told reporters Oct. 24 of the decision to leave him off the roster. “This is so much bigger than baseball. For us, it was doing whatever small part we could to just 100 percent be supportive.”
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