![]() Riley’s death “damaged everything” about Walston, says his older brother Garrett. More than a year has passed and Walston is still battling those disturbing thoughts. “It pretty much cut me in half,” he says. Awake or slumbering, Walston was wracked by guilt - who would have been in a better position to pick up on Riley’s intentions than his best friend? - and was unable to stop himself from thinking about Riley’s death. Every night was sleepless, his insomnia interrupted only occasionally by a few minutes of rest. Every morning greeted him with a bout of nausea. He stopped eating, at one point carrying only 170 pounds on his 6-foot-5 frame. He lost the motivation to play baseball or even leave the house. The loss has scarred the Diamondbacks pitcher in ways he’s only just now beginning to understand. Just more than a year ago, on February 7 of last year in their coastal North Carolina hometown of Wilmington, Walston’s closet friend since birth died by suicide. The tattoo Blake Walston wears to honor his deceased friend, Riley Estes.
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