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Dodgers vs. Blue Jays World Series preview: Who Has the Edge?<\/p>\n

USA TODAY Sports’ Gabe Lacques breaks down both sides of the upcoming World Series between the Dodgers and Blue Jays.<\/p>\n

Sports Pulse<\/p>\n

TORONTO \u2014 The Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> will be without left-handed reliever Alex Vesia for at least the first two games of the World Series after the club announced that he and his wife were dealing with a \u201cdeeply personal family matter.”<\/p>\n

Vesia and his wife, Kayla, have been expecting their first child.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire Dodgers organization is sending our thoughts to the Vesia family,” the Dodgers said in a statement, \u201cand we will provide an update at a later date.”<\/p>\n

The Dodgers now have the option, according to an MLB official, of placing Vesia on the \u201cfamily medical emergency list.”\u00a0If Vesia is placed on leave, he would be required to stay for a minimum of three days and a maximum of seven days.<\/p>\n

Vesia, who has pitched for the Dodgers since 2021, has been one of their valuable left-handed relievers. He pitched in 68 games during the regular season with a 3.02 ERA and five saves, and appeared in seven of the Dodgers\u2019 11 postseason games, yielding three hits and striking out four in 4 \u2154 innings.<\/p>\n

Veteran reliever Tanner Scott<\/a> could replace Vesia on the roster. Scott, who signed a four-year, $72 million contract last winter, struggled during the season and lost his closer\u2019s job to Roki Sasaki. He did not pitch the first round of the postseason against the Cincinnati Reds and had been left off the postseason roster the last two rounds after undergoing an abscess incision prodecdure on his lower body.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think right now, we’re in the mode of trying to understand the process, the rules, a way that we could sort of try to navigate the roster,\u201d Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. \u201cSo I think we have a little bit of time (10 a.m. ET, Friday)\u00a0 to finalize our roster. But, yeah, we’re going through the process of trying to backfill his spot on the roster. \u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, I think we’re just going day-to-day with really no expectations.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dodgers vs. Blue Jays World Series preview: Who Has the Edge? USA TODAY Sports’ Gabe Lacques breaks down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[23201,171195,16343,11534,32263,16342,32287,14881,6096,12069,5488,12,5179,5496,44780,79,6924,171194,171196,9916,49,978,659,171193],"class_list":{"0":"post-528229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-alex","9":"tag-alex-vesia","10":"tag-angeles","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-dodgers","13":"tag-los","14":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-national","17":"tag-national-sports","18":"tag-neutral","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-overall","21":"tag-overall-neutral","22":"tag-scott","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-sports-news","25":"tag-tanner","26":"tag-tanner-scott","27":"tag-toronto","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa","31":"tag-vesia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115438172102861943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}