Cynthia Rodriguez Nicolas (née Scurtis), the ex-wife of Alex Rodriguez, once attempted to broker a reconciliation between the baseball star and his estranged father. Before Cynthia, 52, and Alex, 50, were even married, she proposed a meeting between Alex and his father, Victor, who left Alex and his family when he was just 9 years old. "I could hear an angst in him, a yearning to reconnect," Cynthia explained in the first episode of the HBO docuseries Alex vs ARod, which premiered on Thursday, November 6. "I felt that he needed to have a meeting with his dad.