By late Friday night, only 15 or 20 minutes after they’d put an end-to-end game on the Tampa Bay Rays, Los Angeles Dodgers players and their manager took their turns in the chair that faced the camera and the questions about their two-games-to-one lead in the World Series.
First Mookie Betts, then Austin Barnes, then Justin Turner, then Walker Buehler, then Dave Roberts.
Betts pushed his cap back on his head in a moment of ease before squaring it. Barnes, the backup who catches the best of the staff in the deepest of October, proceeded earnestly.