Alex Vesia Delivers Emotional Save With Late Daughter’s Care Team in Crowd

Cristiana Gigina

On a night that Alex Vesia needed a little extra something to get him and the Los Angeles Dodgers over the line, all he had to do was look up in the stands to get a little extra motivation. The Dodgers and New York Mets were deadlocked in a pitching duel between aces Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Nolan McLean before L.A. took the lead off a bloop single from Kyle Tucker in the bottom of the eighth. Vesia got the ball to close out the game in the ninth, and he put on a special performance, striking out