HOUSTON — Tucker Davidson was watching Game 1 of the World Series on Tuesday with two team staff members in a hotel lobby in Gwinnett, Ga., near Atlanta’s minor league training facility. Early in the broadcast, Davidson saw Charlie Morton, the Atlanta starting pitcher, leave the game with a serious leg injury.
“We kind of looked around like, ‘This is why we’re here,’” Davidson said. “This is the reason we have the taxi squad, for this reason right here.”
Morton suffered a fracture of his lower right leg after he was struck with a batted ball in the second inning of Tuesday’s game, which Atlanta won, 6-2.