Former World Series MVP Pedro Guerrero had a massive stroke and is recovering in a hospital in New York, his wife said.
Roxanna Jimenez said her 60-year-old husband was taken to a hospital Monday. She said doctors initially declared him brain dead but a second opinion confirmed he was comatose. He was transferred to Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.
"It was his second massive stroke," Jimenez said Tuesday by phone from New York to the radio show Grandes en los Deportes in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. "He's recovering. The doctor said he can improve. He opened his eyes and is trying to communicate."
Guerrero played 15 seasons in the majors with the Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals. The slugger was the 1981 World Series co-MVP with the Dodgers and played in five All-Star Games.
Guerrero was a career .300 hitter, with 1,618 hits, 215 home runs and 898 RBI.
Guerrero's five RBI in Game 6 of the World Series led to a 9-2 victory over the Yankees and the team's first championship in 16 years. He had a triple, home run and bases-loaded single, and shared MVP honors with teammates Ron Cey and Steve Yeager.
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