Two Of Rob Reiner's Kids Pay Tribute To Their Dad With Dodgers Ceremonial First Pitches

The precocious character and head Rob Reiner was a devoted Dodgers fan.

Sunday would person meant a batch to him.

Jake and Romy Reiner threw retired nan ceremonial first pitches astatine Dodger Stadium earlier nan team’s crippled against nan Boston Red Sox, much than 7 months aft their parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, were recovered dormant astatine their Brentwood home.

Jake Reiner, a 35-year-old character and reporter, threw his transportation consecutive down nan mediate to Dodgers outfielder Alex Call down nan plate. Romy Reiner, a 28-year-old character and writer, sent her transportation a small precocious and outside, but her catcher, Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas, had nary problem handling it.

Afterward, nan siblings shared a heartfelt hug adjacent to nan mound.

Jake Reiner, who co-hosts nan Dodgers-based podcast “The Incline,” wrote astir his and his father’s relationship done nan Boys successful Blue successful a Substack file posted successful April.

“We loved nan Dodgers much than anything,” Jake wrote. “We went to truthful galore damn games. I’ll ne'er spell to Dodger Stadium again without emotion my dad’s beingness and proceeding his sound show maine why Shohei Ohtani should ne'er bat successful nan leadoff spot.”

When Rob Reiner threw retired a ceremonial first transportation earlier a Dodgers-Braves crippled successful 2010, Jake was photographed helping him lukewarm up.

Rob Reiner told People successful 2023 that he became a diehard instrumentality done his ain father, Carl Reiner, and that he made it a constituent to walk nan aforesaid emotion for nan athletics connected to Jake. The family has had Dodgers play tickets for astir 60 years, pinch Reiner telling People that he and Jake “would spell to astatine slightest 25 aliases 40 games a year.”

“Every clip we travel to nan ballpark, moreover coming erstwhile we walked in, I said to Jake, ‘There’s thing for illustration being astatine nan ballpark,’” Rob Reiner said. “I emotion coming here. We look retired astatine nan grass. The green, it’s truthful beautiful.”

Rob Reiner, 78, and his wife, Michele, 70, were recovered by Romy Reiner erstwhile she went to their location nan day of Dec. 14. Another son, Nick Reiner, 32, was arrested connected suspicion of murdering his parents by stabbing successful December. He has pleaded not blameworthy to 2 counts of first-degree murder.

Nick Reiner has struggled pinch addiction for years and had been surviving successful a guesthouse connected his parents’ property, according to a family friend. His mother was said to person go progressively concerned astir his intelligence wellness successful nan weeks starring up to her death.

“The Dodgers definitive our heavy sorrow and stock our condolences complete nan passing of longtime instrumentality Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele,” nan squad posted Dec. 15 on X.