{"id":48954,"date":"2025-10-23T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=48954"},"modified":"2025-10-24T04:20:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:20:24","slug":"dodgers-pitcher-alex-vesia-not-with-team-in-toronto-on-eve-of-world-series-because-of-family-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=48954","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers pitcher Alex Vesia not with team in Toronto on eve of World Series because of family matter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Alex Vesia was not with the team in Toronto on Thursday, one day before Game 1 of the World Series, because of a \u201cdeeply personal family matter,\u201d the Dodgers said in a statement posted on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Manager Dave Roberts said the defending champions were still working through how the left-hander\u2019s absence would impact their World Series roster, which must be finalized Friday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Vesia went 4-2 with a 3.02 ERA in 68 regular-season games. He is 2-0 with a 3.86 ERA in seven postseason appearances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re in the mode of trying to understand the process, the rules, a way that we could sort of try to navigate the roster,\u201d Roberts said before the Dodgers worked out at Rogers Centre. \u201cWe\u2019re going through the process of trying to backfill his spot on the roster.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Asked whether Vesia would definitely not be on the roster for the best-of-seven series against the AL champion Blue Jays, Roberts said he didn\u2019t know for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/sports\/mlb\/dodgers-pitcher-alex-vesia-not-team-toronto-eve-world-series-family-ma-rcna239495\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Alex Vesia was not with the team in Toronto on Thursday, one day before Game 1 of the World Series, because of a \u201cdeeply personal family matter,\u201d the Dodgers said in a statement posted on social media. Manager Dave Roberts said the defending champions were still working through how the left-hander\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":48955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5782],"tags":[35059,7206,35058,35057,34141],"class_list":["post-48954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ep","tag-alex-vescia","tag-dodgers","tag-family-reasons","tag-not-participating","tag-pitcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48956,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48954\/revisions\/48956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}