Dodgers' Smith postpones wedding in case of November World Series

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.