Freddie ends it! Walk-off HR punctuates 18-inning win for 2-1 LA edge LOS ANGELES MLB
LOS ANGELES – When it was over, finally, the guy slated to pitch for the Dodgers the very next day had reached base so many times he needed an IV, and the guy who had hit a Kirk Gibson-like grand slam in the World Series just one year ago had somehow crafted another epic ending.
Freddie Freeman’s homer off lefty Brendon Little in the bottom of the 18th – yes, 18th – inning of Game 3 punctuated the Dodgers’ 6-5 victory over the Blue Jays and gave L.A. a 2-1 edge in this best-of-seven World Series.
It was an affair that lasted 6 hours, 39 minutes, and it tied another Game 3 at Dodger Stadium – the Dodgers’ 3-2 win over the Red Sox in 2018 – for the longest, by innings, in Fall Classic history.
“It’s one of the greatest World Series games of all time,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said matter-of-factly.
Hard to argue.
But what made this game so unusual – beyond its sheer length – is that the player who once again lived out the stuff of backyard dreams very quickly reminded everyone that, even though he had just become the first player ever to hit multiple walk-off homers in World Series history, someone else was the real star of the almost endless evening.
“Shohei’s game,” Freeman said. “I hope we don’t lose sight … our starting pitcher tomorrow got on base nine times tonight. Just incredible.”
On the eve of his Game 4 start on the mound, Ohtani became the first player in a postseason game (and only the fourth player in any game) to reach base nine times, the second player (joining Frank Isbell of the 1906 White Sox) to have four extra-base hits in a World Series game and the first to be intentionally walked four times in a postseason game.
“What I accomplished today is in the context of this game,” Ohtani said afterward through an interpreter, “and what matters the most is we flip the page and play the next game.”
When any best-of-seven postseason series has been tied 1-1, the team winning Game 3 has gone on to also win the series 70 of 101 times (69.3%). In series with the current 2-3-2 format that have been tied 1-1, teams winning Game 3 at home have gone on to also win the series 29 of 48 times (60.4%).
It was Ohtani who hit the seventh-inning solo homer that tied the game at 5 and put it on the path to legendary lengthiness.
“After that,” said Blue Jays manager John Schneider, “you just kind of take the bat out of his hands.”
The Blue Jays put a bat in the hands of every position player on their roster in this game, and it didn’t help their cause that their ALCS hero, George Springer, had to be replaced in the seventh because of right side discomfort that required further testing. Toronto’s 67 at-bats in this game set a World Series record, and the Blue Jays regrettably stranded a Series-record 19 runners.
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The Dodgers set a Series team record, too, using 10 pitchers in all, including the retiring Clayton Kershaw in a relief role for a key out in the 12th. We knew we’d see one future Hall of Famer in this game with Max Scherzer starting for the Blue Jays, but Kershaw’s presence was definitely unscripted.
The Dodgers’ biggest outs, though, came from little-known reliever Will Klein, who was summoned to their World Series roster after mainstay Alex Vesia was ruled out due to a personal matter. Klein wound up giving the Dodgers four scoreless innings in extras in the longest outing of his professional life.
“I was sitting at home in Arizona the last month, you know?” Klein said. “I never thought this would happen, so I just stayed in it mentally and good things happened.”
The game was a mental and physical grind for both teams.
And it had everything.
It saw six runners thrown out on the bases, including multiple plays at the plate — Freeman nabbed by a beautiful Addison Barger throw from right field in the third and Jays pinch-runner Davis Schneider caught in the top of the 10th by a perfect relay from right fielder Teoscar Hernández to second baseman Tommy Edman to catcher Will Smith.
It had one of the more peculiar pickoffs you’ll ever see, as batter Daulton Varsho and runner Bo Bichette were both confused by home-plate umpire Mark Wegner’s slow strike signal on a 3-1 pitch. Bichette, thinking it was a walk, began heading to second and was picked off first by pitcher Tyler Glasnow.
And it saw several would-be walk-off Dodger blasts die at the warning track … until, of course, one didn’t.
Most of the game’s runs came early.
The Dodgers jumped out to an early 2-0 lead thanks to solo shots from Hernández and Ohtani off Scherzer.
The Jays, who had been scoreless since the third inning of Game 2, roared back in the fourth, taking advantage of an Edman error to put two on before Alejandro Kirk smashed a hanging curveball from Glasnow over the left-center-field wall for a three-run blast that put Toronto ahead, 3-2. The Jays manufactured insurance later in the inning to make it 4-2.
With a runner aboard in the fifth, Schneider pulled the 41-year-old Scherzer to bring in lefty reliever Mason Fluharty for the handedness advantage against Ohtani.
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