Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Eliézer Alfonzo made his Major League debut on Sunday, July 5, with a heavy heart after learning just hours earlier that two family members had died in the earthquakes that hit Venezuela last month.
Alfonzo, 26, got the call he always dreamed of on Saturday, July 4, when he received word that he was being called up to the Big Leagues. At the time, his 16-year-old sister, Eliana, and his stepmother, Patricia, were still considered missing amid the wreckage of two earthquakes that hit the country on June 24, killing more than 3,000 people.
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