Ex-Dodger denies seeing Rebecca Grossman kill young brothers with her SUV

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In the days after she killed two boys in a Westlake Village crosswalk with her SUV, Rebecca Grossman never admitted culpability in the crash to her lover Scott Erickson, despite testimony from another witness saying she did, the ex-Dodgers pitcher testified from the stand Wednesday.Erickson, who was driving his AMG Mercedes in front of Grossman’s white Mercedes on Sept.29, 2020, said he never saw what happened in his rearview mirror after he dodged the two brothers, Mark and Jacob Iskander, ages 11 and 8.He was testifying for a second day in a wrongful-death civil trial filed by the boys’ parents against him and Grossman, who was convicted of second-degree murder in the deaths and is serving 15 years to life in prison.During the trial, one of Erickson’s friends, retired major leaguer Royce Clayton, told jurors that the pitcher called him and told him he narrowly avoided the boys while traveling at a high rate of speed but saw Grossman’s car hit them.

On Wednesday, Erickson denied it.“I didn’t see it; I had to assume that,” Erickson said, after he’d noted he saw the front of Grossman’s SUV was damaged.Under intense questioning by Brian Panish, the lead attorney for Nancy and Karim Iskander, the boys’ parents, Erickson denied Grossman ever admitted fault over four years of communicating with him through WhatsApp, in person and over the phone.

“I don’t know if she told me she hit the boys,” Erickson testified.The 58-year-old World Series winner said that he and Grossman, 62, both returned to the crosswalk after the deadly incident so she could look at the scene, but neither of them discussed what she did there.Initially, Erickson denied on the stand ever asking Grossman what happened.

He later said he simply could not recall what she told him, beyond “she said she never saw the two boys.”In his first day of testimony on Monday, Erickson testified he...