I hope you got to see some of the recent World Series, if not all of it. Those were the seven best baseball games I've seen in a long time, and while I was rooting for the Blue Jays, there was a really good sentimental reason to pull for the Dodgers, the eventual winners.
The Dodgers have a pitcher named Alex Vesia who was not on their roster for the series because he was said to be dealing with a deeply personal family matter. Although we sometimes forget that ballplayers have personal lives outside of the ballparks, they do, and this was the worst news: Vesia and his wife, Kayla, announced after the final game that their first child, Sterling Sol Vesia, had passed away on October 26.
Players on both teams had inked his Alex's jersey number 51 on their caps as a sign of brotherhood and solidarity, and after all the news was out, it wasn't just the players, but the fans of both teams who responded in a heartwarming manner.
It was actually a Toronto fan, Marcus Kim, who came up with the idea for the fans to donate money to Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, and a good deal of the money donated has come from Los Angeles fans! The gifts carried messages saying things such as "On behalf of Alex Vesia. We are rivals, not enemies. Go Dodgers."
During the series, Dodger player Kike Hernández, touched by the show of support for his teammates on the other team's caps, was touched by the gesture, and reflected, "I thought it was a mistake. But then I understood... life is bigger than baseball"
And he is so right about that! Good going, to all involved!
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