Eliezer Alfonzo Jr. comes from a baseball family. His father played professionally for 15 years, while brother Omar Alfonzo is a Pirates minor leaguer.

A 26-year-old catcher will play his first major league game immediately after the bodies of his sister and stepmother were found.

Catcher Eliézer Alfonzo has made his major league debut for the Los Angeles Dodgers with his sister and stepmother still missing after Venezuela’s catastrophic earthquakes.