Two of Rob Reiner's kids pay tribute to their dad with Dodgers ceremonial first pitches

The precocious histrion and manager Rob Reiner was a devoted Dodgers fan.

Sunday would person meant a batch to him.

Jake and Romy Reiner threw retired the ceremonial archetypal pitches astatine Dodger Stadium earlier the team’s crippled against the 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 histrion and reporter, threw his transportation consecutive down the mediate to Dodgers outfielder Alex Call down the plate. Romy Reiner, a 28-year-old histrion and writer, sent her transportation a small precocious and outside, but her catcher, Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas, had nary occupation handling it.

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

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

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

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

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

“Every clip we travel to the ballpark, adjacent contiguous erstwhile we walked in, I said to Jake, ‘There’s thing similar being astatine the ballpark,’” Rob Reiner said. “I emotion coming here. We look retired astatine the 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 the 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 with addiction for years and had been surviving successful a guesthouse connected his parents’ property, according to a household friend. His parent was said to person go progressively acrophobic astir his intelligence wellness successful the weeks starring up to her death.

“The Dodgers explicit our heavy sorrow and stock our condolences implicit the passing of longtime instrumentality Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele,” the squad posted Dec. 15 connected X.