MLB World Series 2015: Is Edinson Volquez of the Kansas City Royals betrayed?

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Apparently, it was not just excitement, but there was also a tinge of drama surrounding the game one of the MLB World Series Tuesday.

Edinson Volquez, Kansas City Royals right-hander, has pitched six innings without him having the slightest of idea that his father has already died earlier during the day. According to a report from the USA Today, the team management of the Royals decided to not tell their player about his father's untimely demise because it was also his wife's request.

Volquez's father Daniel, 63, from the Dominican Republic has succumbed to years of battle against heart disease. And, his better half Roandry had asked the management to just let his husband do his pitch first before spilling the beans. The player was then pulled out from the game and brought to a clubhouse where general manager Dayton Moore took him to see his wife and 2-year-old twin daughters in the manager's office.

The story has, somehow, rubbed some people the wrong way. Janine Murphy-Neilson, a licensed professional counselor in Fairfax, Va. is one of them.

"What's weird here is that the rest of the world knew this before he did," she told USA Today. "That could feel like a betrayal, that everyone knew about his life and he didn't. So you could imagine there could be complications coming from that. That would be my concern."

Meanwhile, Lisa Farmer, the program manager for Solace House, a center for grief and healing with Kansas City Hospice said that every person grieves in their own way and that there really is no right or wrong way to do it. She says it is not for others to determine when it's right to delay news of a death.

"Most of us don't have to face a public, major event to the same extent on the heels of this. So, gosh, I don't know that I have any clear thoughts of how to proceed or not. The family knows him better than anybody else. I probably find myself giving this kind of advice (to delay) more in connection with kids than in connection with adults," she said.

It is still unclear on when Volquez would return from the Dominican Republic, CNN reported. The Royals has been, ominously, besieged with death. Just last September 26, Chris Young, also lost his father to cancer, while Royals third baseman Mike Moustakas lost his mother, also to cancer, on August 9.