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Alex Vesia and Kayla Vesia are mourning the lack of their toddler daughter.
The Dodgers pitcher, who missed the staff's World Sequence victory over the Toronto Blue Jays to take care of a beforehand undisclosed household matter, introduced Friday that his daughter, Sterling Sol Vesia, died on Oct. 26.
"Our little angel we love you ceaselessly & you're with us all the time," Vesia wrote on Instagram. "Our stunning daughter went to heaven Sunday October twenty sixth. There aren’t any phrases to explain the ache we're going by way of however we maintain her in our hearts and cherish each second we had together with her."
The previous Miami Marlin went on to thank the Dodgers "for his or her understanding and help" amid horrific circumstances. "Our baseball household confirmed up for us and we wouldn't be capable to do that with out them," he wrote.
Vesia additionally thanked the staff's followers and the Toronto Blue Jays, whom the Dodgers beat within the World Sequence on Saturday, for his or her collective help. "We have now seen ALL your messages, feedback and posts," he wrote. "It's introduced us a lot consolation."
The pitcher ended his remarks with gratitude towards the medical staff on the hospital that handled his spouse and daughter. "Lastly, we'd prefer to thank Cedars Sinai and all of the medical employees who helped Kayla and Sterling," Vesia wrote. "Each particular person we got here throughout was actually so unbelievable."
Vesia and his spouse introduced that they had been anticipating their first youngster collectively in April. He pitched in seven video games throughout the primary three rounds of the playoffs, however didn’t be a part of the staff in Toronto when the World Sequence started on Oct. 24.
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"It's with a heavy coronary heart that we share that Alex Vesia is away from the staff as he and his spouse Kayla navigate a deeply private household matter," the Dodgers stated in a press release on Oct. 23. "The whole Dodgers group is sending our ideas to the Vesia household, and we’ll present an replace at a later date."
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In a gesture of solidarity with Vesia, each the Dodgers and the Blue Jays wore his jersey quantity, 51, on their hats all through the sequence.
"Ves, he means rather a lot to all of us, and he was an enormous a part of this staff, an enormous a part of the bullpen," Clayton Kershaw informed Dodgers Nation after the third sport within the sequence. "So we simply needed to do one thing to honor him."
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Fellow pitcher Will Klein additionally despatched a message to Vesia throughout a dialog with reporters after the sequence ended with the Dodgers' victory. "We've all messaged him, and we simply need him to know that he's in our hearts," he stated. "We did this all for him. He's such a giant a part of why we're right here within the first place."
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