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The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays, 6-5, in an epic 18-inning World Series game, and the man who called the game for Fox refused to answer a call from nature. ”I actually didn’t pee,” Fox Sports play-by-play man Joe Davis revealed in a Thursday, November 6 appearance on Chicago talk radio show Waddle & Silvy. Game 3 of the 2025 World Series began on October 27, carrying into the next morning before Dodgers star Freddie Freeman finally ended it with a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 18th inning, six hours and 39 minutes after the first pitch. “Afterwards, I was like, ‘Dang, that’s good stuff, dude,” added Davis, 37. Davis has been the lead TV broadcast voice for the World Series since 2022, and, coincidentally, has been the Dodgers’ lead play-by-play man since 2016. Game 3 was tied for the longest World Series game, by innings, in baseball history, matching Game 3 in 2018, between the Dodgers and Boston Red Sox. That one ran seven hours and 20 minutes. “Bladder size is not a strength of mine, either,” Davis said, “but I dug deep for it. I do not like the window seat because I don’t like bugging the guy in the aisle. I go a lot. I just happened to be on my game that night, I guess.” It was a far better outcome than his predecessor, Joe Buck, had to endure while calling a Green Bay Packers football game in 1994. Buck, now 56, called World Series games for Fox from 1996 to 2021, joining the network two years earlier. He recalled being on the call during a Packers game whose first half was taking especially long to end. Realizing that a trip to the bathroom could run longer than a commercial break, he instead used a trash can during a timeout. Only, that break ended a little too soon. “I have peed in a bottle while calling an NFL touchdown, I swear to god,” Buck recalled in a 2021 appearance on the “SmartLess” podcast. “I was peeing in a trash can and they handed me a little water bottle. … We came back from a break and I was peeing and the action started. And I called a touchdown while urine was coming out of me.” Fortunately for Davis, he did not have to resort to any dire measures that would disrupt the, shall we say, flow of the game. He was also back in the booth for the final four games of the series, which included an epic Game 7 that also ran long, with the Dodgers winning 5-4 in 11 innings to capture their second straight championship. Who Is Your Favorite Current MLB Player? Overall, it was one of the most competitive World Series in baseball history, and the enormity of the moment was not lost on Davis.
