TORONTO -- The Dodgers set their 26-man roster for the World Series ahead of Game 1 on Friday night at Rogers Centre, leaving off lefty reliever Alex Vesia and righty Ben Casparius while activating righties Edgardo Henriquez and Will Klein. Southpaw Tanner Scott was also not included on the roster.
Like in the NL Championship Series, the Dodgers opted to carry 12 pitchers, including veteran Clayton Kershaw in his final series before retirement, and 14 position players. The latter group remains unchanged from the NLCS. Shohei Ohtani does not count toward the team's pitcher limits because of his two-way player status.
Vesia is expected to be out for the duration of the World Series while he and his wife, Kayla, handle what the Dodgers described in a statement as a "deeply personal family matter." The team opted not to place him on the family medical emergency list so as not to put pressure on him to return.
While Scott was hopeful that he would be an option for the World Series roster after recovering from a minor procedure to treat an abscess in his lower body, he was not activated for medical reasons.
"The medical has not allowed for him to have the rampup," Roberts said, "and as he's thrown a couple bullpens, it just wasn't quite there."
Instead, the Dodgers called upon Klein and Henriquez, adding two righty arms to the 'pen to help counter the Blue Jays' right-handed bats.
Klein had three stints with the Dodgers in the regular season, striking out 21 batters against 10 walks in 15 1/3 innings and posting a 2.35 ERA. Henriquez made an appearance in the NL Wild Card Series against the Reds, failing to retire the three batters he faced and giving up one run in Game 1. He logged a 2.37 ERA in 22 regular-season appearances.
Casparius was added to the roster for the NLCS, but he did not make an appearance.
Here's the full roster:
Catchers (2): Ben Rortvedt, Will Smith
First base (1): Freddie Freeman
Second base (1): Tommy Edman
Shortstop (1): Mookie Betts
Third base (1): Max Muncy
Outfielders (4): Alex Call, Justin Dean, Teoscar Hernández, Andy Pages
Bench/utility (3): Kiké Hernández, Hyeseong Kim, Miguel Rojas
Two-way player (1): Shohei Ohtani
Starters (3): Tyler Glasnow, Blake Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Bullpen (9): Anthony Banda, Jack Dreyer, Edgardo Henriquez, Clayton Kershaw, Will Klein, Roki Sasaki, Emmet Sheehan, Blake Treinen, Justin Wrobleski