Smith and wife LaForce organize meal delivery

HOUSTON -- Astros pitcher Joe Smith and his wife, TNT sideline reporter Allie LaForce, will have hundreds of meals delivered to hospitals from local restaurants in Houston and the Cleveland area next week in support of medical workers during the coronavirus pandemic.

With help of online donations, Project FRONTLINE will deliver between 300-500 meals to doctors and nurses at Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston on Tuesday and 250 meals to medical workers at Mercy Hospital in Lorain, Ohio, on Wednesday. Smith and LaForce are from Ohio.

“COVID-19 has impacted all of us,” LaForce said in a Twitter video promoting the project. “But while most of us wait it out at home, our frontline healthcare workers are putting their lives on the line every single day.”