How Ryan Ward overcame long minor-league wait to make Dodgers debut: ‘He’s earned it’

DENVER — The wait lasted seven years, three weeks and, in the end, one final half-inning. On Friday night, Ryan Ward was on deck at the start of Triple-A Oklahoma City’s game in Albuquerque when he was called back to the dugout at the last second. There was news for him, he was told. But…