{"id":131800,"date":"2026-05-11T23:13:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/ex-dodger-scott-erickson-says-he-wasnt-racing-rebecca-grossman-on-fatal-night\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T23:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:14:45","slug":"ex-dodger-scott-erickson-says-he-wasnt-racing-rebecca-grossman-on-fatal-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/ex-dodger-scott-erickson-says-he-wasnt-racing-rebecca-grossman-on-fatal-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Dodger Scott Erickson says he ‘wasn’t racing’ Rebecca Grossman on fatal night"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Dodgers pitcher Scott Erickson said on the stand Monday that he “wasn’t racing” her when his then-girlfriend, Rebecca Grossman, struck two young brothers with her Mercedes in a Westlake Village crosswalk.<\/p>\n

Erickson was seeking to refute claims by the family of Grossman’s victims that he and Grossman were racing when he hit Mark and Jacob Iskandar, ages 11 and 8. He testified that he “didn’t know what happened” that day in September 2020 but admitted that he hit the boys with his vehicle while Grossman was speeding behind them, but that it did not happen.<\/p>\n

Grossman, 62, was convicted of second-degree murder in 2024 and is serving a 15-years-to-life prison sentence for the boys’ deaths. She and Erickson are being sued for wrongful death by the boy’s parents, and Erickson was called as a witness in the civil trial in Van Nuys on Monday.<\/p>\n

Midway through the trial, Erickson was not present in court. During questioning Monday he told jurors he was in Mexico with a girlfriend. But much of her testimony Monday concerned her past relationship with Grossman, co-founder of the Grossman Burn Foundation and wife of renowned surgeon Peter Grossman.<\/p>\n

On the stand, Erickson, 58, admitted that she had deleted several messages she had with Grossman after she killed the boys on Sept. 29, 2020. He also admitted that when the police asked him to return the Mercedes he was driving on the day of the accident, he gave them another vehicle instead.<\/p>\n

According to testimony at the criminal trial, Erickson and Grossman were drinking margaritas at a local cantina before the pair got into their respective vehicles and drove to Grossman’s home to watch the presidential debate. <\/p>\n

On the stand Monday, Erickson admitted to sending messages to Grossman leading up to the end of his murder trial in 2024.<\/p>\n

“There’s my girl,” he wrote her just days after the fatal accident.<\/p>\n

However, when his son asked him to leave his family alone, the messages stopped, he said. <\/p>\n

The former World Series-winning pitcher did not testify in Grossman’s high-profile 2024 criminal trial. <\/p>\n

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Rebecca Grossman, left, at the Van Nuys Courthouse during her criminal trial in February 2024. <\/p>\n

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In that proceeding, Grossman’s lawyers tried to pin the blame for the boys’ deaths on Erickson, claiming that it was his SUV, not his, that struck the children first. But messages during the criminal trial revealed the pair continued to show their affection, while her lawyers portrayed her as the unseen villain.<\/p>\n

During Monday’s civil trial proceedings, the Iskandar family attorney, Brian Panish, presented jurors with several WhatsApp messages of a sexual nature that Erickson sent him after the accident, including, “Grossman, you make me feel like a sex-crazed child.”<\/p>\n

He was also questioned about the large gaps of time between some of their exchanges, which the family lawyer suggested were put off.<\/p>\n

The retired pitcher, dressed in a dark suit and a white dress shirt with no tie, denied any role in the boys’ deaths. <\/p>\n

However, he admitted that he was charged with careless driving for his role in the incident and the charge was later dropped after making a public service video on driving.<\/p>\n

Erickson and Grossman were driving separately on Triunfo Canyon Road in Westlake Village when Mark and Jacob crossed the road at Saddle Mountain Drive with their mother and younger brother. Nancy Iskandar testified at the criminal trial that she began crossing with her youngest son, Zachary, on inline skates on his scooter. Mark, on a skateboard, and Jacob, wearing inline skates, trailed slightly behind at an arm’s length. <\/p>\n

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After the collision, the safety systems of Grossman’s Mercedes SUV disabled the vehicle, which came to a stop a third of a mile down the road. According to testimony at both trials, testing showed that his blood alcohol content three hours after the accident was 0.08% \u2013 which is the legal limit in California.<\/p>\n

But Grossman was drinking alone, Panish reminded jurors Monday. They asked questions about Erickson’s drinking habits on the stand, and Erickson admitted to drinking every day for the past 10 years. On the day of the accident, he was driving a powerful AMG model of Mercedes SUV, but he later made his second Mercedes available to police for inspection, he testified.<\/p>\n

During Grossman’s criminal trial, a district attorney’s investigator testified that Erickson “cold plated” both vehicles, using the same license plates.<\/p>\n

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Karim Iskandar and wife Nancy Iskandar at the courthouse. <\/p>\n

(Brian van der Brug\/Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n

Before the civil trial began, Erickson, through his attorneys, sought to blame Grossman for the entire incident, insisting that he was going slightly over the 45 mph speed limit. But Panish had law enforcement witnesses testify that data from Grossman’s Mercedes showed she was driving at 70 to 80-plus mph before the collision, and asked them to admit that it was logical that Erickson was driving faster, since his vehicle was ahead of hers. <\/p>\n

Erickson’s friend and former baseball player Royce Clayton said that, afterward, Erickson called him and said he was watching Grossman being taken into custody and “they were traveling at high speed.” She was directly behind him, and he said as he came to this crosswalk, he saw the kids, Clayton said, and he avoided them, but he hit them. <\/p>\n

Clayton testified that Erickson told him that he and Grossman were “flying” down Triunfo Canyon Road when he turned to avoid two boys in the crosswalk. He also told jurors that Erickson had been hiding in a bush not far from the scene, watching the events of the crash \u2014 but Erickson denied this on the stand Monday.<\/p>\n

When questioned by Iskanders’ attorney, the former baseball player also denied that he had told Clayton that he was flying along, missed the boys and that his then-girlfriend hit them.<\/p>\n

“I was happy to pass through the intersection safely,” he testified. “I didn’t run. I was driving down the road.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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