Joe Davis calls out Dodgers fans as George Springer leaves World Series with injury

Oct 27, 2025; Los Angeles, California, USA; Toronto Blue Jays right fielder George Springer (4) leaves the game after an apparent injury in the seventh inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers during game three of the 2025 MLB World Series at Dodger Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images
Oct 27, 2025; Los Angeles, California, USA; Toronto Blue Jays right fielder George Springer (4) leaves the game after an apparent injury in the seventh inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers during game three of the 2025 MLB World Series at Dodger Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images | Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

Dodgers enemy George Springer has been a magnet for bad luck this offseason. During the ALCS against the Mariners, he took a pitch straight into his knee; in World Series Game 2, Yoshinobu Yamamoto plunked him in the arm. He stayed in the game after the latter incident, and he earned some good karma after the Mariners incident, if his go-ahead three-run homer in Game 7 was any indication.

There's no love lost for Springer among Dodgers fans. Before his name could even be read off during introductions ahead of Game 3, Dodgers fans were raining boos down on him. The same went for any time he stepped up to the plate.

When Tyler Glasnow struck him out for his first out of the game, Dodger Stadium roared. When he grounded out in the top of the third and then struck out again in the fourth, it was more of the same.

Springer led off the seventh with the game tied at four apiece and fouled off the first pitch he saw from Justin Wrobleski, but he walked out of the box holding his side and was quick to wave a trainer over.

He left the game to a mix of boos and cheers. Joe Davis, the Dodgers' usual play-by-play announcer, now on the call for FOX, gave fans a verbal slap on the wrist. "That shouldn't be cheered, ever, under any circumstances, no matter the history," he said.

Joe Davis scolds Dodgers fans for cheering as George Springer leaves World Series Game 3 with apparent injury

And opposing have had the audacity to complain about the fact that Davis is calling this series...

Ty France came in to finish off the rest of Springer's at bat, and he ended up striking out swinging for the first out of what would end up being a go-ahead inning for the Blue Jays, who capitalized on the classic Dave Roberts mistake of trusting Blake Treinen.

Springer left the game holding his side and seemed to be in a good deal of discomfort immediately, enough to take himself out of the game so quickly. If he can't play through the rest of the series, that'll certainly give the Dodgers' pitching staff reason to breathe a sigh of relief, but Davis was right; cheering an injury is a bad look for Dodgers fans.

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