Joe Davis awoke Saturday morning, still fretting.
He is a perfectionist. He had provided a pretty perfect call of a pretty perfect moment the night before. In six words, he had delivered a magical homage to the best broadcaster in baseball history and the most dramatic moment in Dodgers history.
Were they just the right words? At just the right time?
He second-guessed himself long enough for his wife to tell him to knock it off.
“People really liked it, right?” his wife Libby said. “Would you stop?”
Davis drew local and national acclaim for his call of Freddie Freeman’s walk-off grand slam in Game 1 of the World Series on Friday: “She is gone!