Dodgers booth video from Miguel Rojas HR will show Joe Davis haters a real homer

Davis was calm, cool and collected compared to this.
Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas.
Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas. | Gregory Shamus/GettyImages

FOX Sports' play-by-play maestro Joe Davis executed a wonderful World Series Game 7. Davis had multiple iconic moments in the game, including his handling of Los Angeles Dodgers infielder Miguel Rojas hitting an unthinkable, season-saving home run in the ninth. Davis let out a goosebumps-inducing "NO WAY!" in reaction to Rojas's blast that will live on forever in the annals of broadcasting greatness.

Sadly, Davis' haters came out in droves following his shining Game 7, as haters do. The fact that Davis — in addition to his national MLB duties for FOX — is also the Dodgers' regular season play-by-play guy gave haters fuel for a homer narrative.

But anyone accusing Davis of home cookin' should re-visit Stephen Nelson's call of the Rojas swing to understand what real Dodgers bias looks and sounds like. Nelson was calling Game 7 for AM 570 LA Sports, and his reaction to Rojas's miraculous dinger will give Dodgers fans bliss and Blue Jays fans nausea.

Stephen Nelson's Miguel Rojas call is a reminder that Joe Davis wasn't announcing the World Series with a biased voice

If Nelson's celebratory "GONE!!!" isn't enough for your ears to be convinced of his Dodgers sympathies, your eyes will surely finish the job when seeing Nelson pump two closed fists high into the air like a kid on Christmas morning.

You absolutely have to love re-watching this if you're a Dodgers fan, and Nelson had no reason to act any differently than he did, considering he was a Dodgers announcer calling the game for a Dodgers radio station.

But the Nelson call also makes you appreciate the tact and artful restrain of Davis even more. Like Nelson, Davis also calls Dodgers games all season long, and he surely has developed his own fondness for the club over the past eight seasons of working on the SportsNet LA broadcast team in a prominent role.

Nonetheless, Davis is always able to pack away his deep Dodgers ties during national broadcasts, and he certainly do so during the most pivotal moments of the final, epic game of the MLB season. After all, Davis's reaction to Rojas was simply one of shock and awe, and this wasn't a reaction unique to Dodgers supporters. No one in the entire baseball universe watching Game 7, in any fandom, expected Rojas to do what he did.

Davis's call of the final out ("To be the champ, you gotta knock 'em out!") was similarly thrilling while maintaining a respectable degree of impartiality. Why is Davis receiving so much flak? Maybe it's mostly Blue Jays fans grasping for an antidote to their bitterness. Maybe it's just human nature to tear down a good thing. Davis was about as objectively awesome as it gets during Game 7, and no one can take that away from him.

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