PHOENIX -- Padres outfielder Jabari Blash spent an anxious day on Thursday awaiting word about how his family had weathered the wrath of Hurricane Irma after it blitzed his home island of St. Thomas in the Caribbean.
On Friday, he was able to rest a lot easier.
"They're fine," said Blash, who was in the lineup and playing right field against the D-backs on Friday night after he heard from his mother, Yvette. "It's a big relief. I had a big headache most of [Thursday]."
Irma, a Category 5 hurricane considered to be the strongest and largest in history, is anticipated to make landfall in southern Florida this weekend after wreaking havoc on the small islands that dot the Caribbean.