Joe Davis reveals whether he peed during an 18-inning World Series game
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 guy Joe Davis revealed in an appearance on Thursday, November 6, on the Chicago talk show Waddle & Silvy.
Game 3 of the 2025 World Series started on October 27 and continued 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 thought, ‘Dang, that’s good stuff, dude,’” Davis, 37, added.
Davis has been the primary TV broadcast voice for the World Series since 2022 and, coincidentally, has been the Dodgers’ lead play-by-play man since 2016. Game 3 tied for the longest World Series game, per innings, in baseball history, matching Game 3 in 2018, between the Dodgers and Boston Red Sox. It ran for seven hours and twenty minutes.
“Bladder size isn’t my strong suit either,” Davis said, “but I dug deep for it. I don’t like the window seat because I don’t like bothering the guy in the aisle. I go a lot. I just happened to be playing that night, I think.”
It was a much better result than its predecessor, Joe Buckhad to hold out when he called 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 remembered being on the phone during a Packers game where the end of the first half was particularly long. Realizing that a trip to the bathroom could take longer than a commercial break, he instead used a trash can during a timeout.
Only that break ended a little too early.
“I peed in a bottle while calling an NFL touchdown, I swear to God,” Buck recalled in 2021 on the “SmartLess” podcast. “I was peeing in a garbage can and they gave me a bottle of water. We came back from a break and I was peeing and the action started. And I called a touchdown with urine coming out of me.”
Luckily for Davis, he didn’t have to resort to terrible measures that would disrupt the, shall we say, flow of the game. He was also back in the lineup for the final four games of the series, including an epic Game 7 that also went long, with the Dodgers winning 5-4 in 11 innings to capture their second straight championship.
Overall, it was one of the most competitive World Series in baseball history, and the enormity of the moment was not lost on Davis.
“It’s still very difficult to wrap my mind around where it stands in baseball history and, for me specifically, it’s hard to wrap my mind around where Game 7 stands of all the games I’ve had the privilege of calling,” he said. The Athletics in a story published on Tuesday, November 4. “So much happened in Game 7, especially in the late innings of that game. It’s going to take some time to get rid of that before I can really have any real perspective.”
