Nashville’s Mookie Betts will never forget how things ended early Tuesday morning at the World Series.

But his day had started on a pretty good note as well — many hours earlier.

The Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop, an Overton High School graduate, was on Monday evening named the winner of Major League Baseball’s Roberto Clemente Award, which is given annually to the player who best represents the game of baseball through extraordinary character, community involvement, philanthropy and positive contributions, both on and off the field.

The 33-year-old Betts then went out and played 18 innings of baseball in an epic Game 3 of the World Series, helping the Dodgers defeat Toronto 6-5 in a contest that tied the record for the longest Fall Classic game, in terms of innings.

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