Quatraro received support from the visiting dugout this week, too.
“Obviously, I’ve chatted with him, and my thoughts are with him and his family,” Guardians manager Stephen Vogt said. “I lost my mom during the season in 2016. It’s hard. You feel for him. I miss seeing him over there. I wish he would have been here and not going through what he is going through. This is a game. I realize this is a really important thing we get to do for a living, and it means a lot to a lot of people, and we recognize that, but at the end of the day, we are all humans and we all go through life. It doesn’t matter what you do for a living. You’re going to have the same emotions and feelings as everyone else.
“You have a job to do, but at the same time, there are things that are way more important than your job. And for [Quatraro], it was to be with his family and to celebrate his mother’s life.”
