Every Dodgers reliever who came out of the bullpen in Game 3 had No. 51 etched onto the sides of their caps to honor teammate Alex Vesia, who was away from the team throughout the World Series to attend to a "deeply personal family matter." Dodgers players and management alike have emphasized that what Vesia and his wife Kayla have been going through is bigger than baseball.
It was a beautiful coincidence (or maybe not one, depending on your persuasion) that the Dodgers' bullpen was at their very best throughout Game 3. The much-maligned LA 'pen took LA through 13 scoreless before Freddie Freeman walked it off in the bottom of the 18th.