LOS ANGELES -- There will always be a connection between baseball and ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, because the disease took the life of one of the sport's icons.
So it's natural then, that Major League Baseball has joined the efforts of the ALS Association and the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge for the second straight year. Friday, the Red Sox restarted the movement that went viral a year ago, and they challenged the Dodgers to follow suit. So Yasiel Puig and Enrique Hernandez stepped up Saturday and were doused in ice.
"It is a completely organic event supported by the ALS community, initiated by people with ALS," said Fred Fisher, president and CEO of the ALS Association and a lifetime Dodgers fan.