World Series MVP Awarded to Davis, Smoltz
TORONTO—At the insistence of Dodgers' manager Dave Roberts, Major League Baseball has taken the extraordinary step of naming two broadcasters as co-MVPs for this year's World Series. The award was bestowed in a postgame ceremony to Fox Sports play-by-play presenter and color commentator Joe Davis and John Smoltz, respectively. "Some teams think of their fans as the twenty-sixth man," Roberts said during the presentation, referring to the traditional twenty-five spots on a regular season game-day roster. "We feel that through the entire World Series we had a twenty-sixth man and a twenty-seventh man right there in the broadcast booth. For seven games Joe and Smoltzie literally showed up every day and gave us the support we needed to get through the tough times." A surprised Joe Davis exclaimed, "I'm not gonna lie. During the top of the ninth I came this [expletive deleted] close to coming to terms with the fact that the What's-Their-Names might a...