Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Will Smith got engaged last December with the big day slated for late autumn of 2020.
With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing the MLB season - and the World Series, in particular - to be delayed, Smith and his fiancee made a slight change of plans.
"We actually moved it back about a month into December," Smith told John Hartung of SportsNet LA. “It was kind of mid-November and most likely they are going to push back the season a little bit. I felt like the World Series would probably be around that time of our wedding and I wasn’t going to miss the World Series for a wedding. So we went ahead and pushed it back."
The Dodgers were slated as the odds-on favorite to represent the National League in the World Series, so Smith's wedding may have represented a scheduling conflict had it not been moved.
Smith, 25, made his big-league debut in 2019. In 43 games with the Dodgers, the former first-round pick hit .253 with 15 home runs and 42 RBIs and was poised to enter his first Opening Day as the team's everyday catcher.
