Game 3 of the World Series was like none different within the history of baseball.
When the mud settled on the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 6-5, 18-inning marathon win over the Blue Jays Monday night (Tuesday morning Toronto time), it was tied for the longest recreation in World Series history when it comes to innings.
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It did not, nonetheless, set the record for whole time in a World Series recreation. The different 18-inning World Series recreation through which the Dodgers additionally gained in walk-off trend towards the Boston Red Sox in 2018 — additionally at house in Game 3 — took 7:20 to complete. That recreation was performed earlier than the pitch clock existed.
But Monday’s Game 3 was a lot lengthy at 6:39. And a number of information had been set alongside the way in which on a historic night for baseball. As ordinary, Shohei Ohtani was amongst these etching his identify into the record guide.
Shohei Ohtani’s epic postseason continued Monday with one other historic effort in Game 3.
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Another good night for Shohei Ohtani
The Dodgers’ famous person led off the sport with a double. He hit a solo house run in his second at-bat. His third at-bat produced one other double, this time with an RBI for a 4-3 Dodgers lead. His subsequent at-bat produced one other solo house run to tie the sport at 5-5.
And that was the final time he noticed a pitch till the seventeenth inning. The Blue Jays deliberately walked Ohtani for the remainder of the sport at any time when first base was open. His third consecutive intentional stroll within the thirteenth inning made him the first player in postseason history to reach base seven times in a single recreation.
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That record lasted two innings. In the fifteenth, the Blue Jays gave him one other free go for his eighth time reaching base, extending his record. It additionally gave him one other record. No player in postseason history had been deliberately walked 4 occasions in a single recreation till then.
When Ohtani got here up within the seventeenth, first base was not open. Pinch hitter Alex Call delivered a two-out single out of the 9-hole forward of him. And Brendon Little — Toronto’s ninth pitcher of the night — pitched to Ohtani.
But the tip end result was the identical. Ohtani walked for a fifth straight time. And he turned the fourth participant participant since 1925 to achieve base 9 occasions in an MLB recreation, common season or postseason, per MLB’s Sarah Langs. The final to take action? Chicago Cubs All-Star Stan Hack in 1942.
When he was carried out, Ohtani was 4 for 4 on the plate with two house runs, three RBI, three runs scored and 5 walks. And he’ll begin on the mound in Tuesday’s Game 4.
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Freddie Freeman caps recreation with record of his own
And there have been extra information in Tuesday’s 6:39 hour epic. Will Klein entered the sport within the 14th inning because the Dodgers tenth pitcher of the night. That’s the primary time in World Series history a single team used 10 pitchers in a recreation.
When Little took the mound for the Blue Jays within the seventeenth, he was the ninth Toronto pitcher of the night. Thus marked the first time in World Series history that 19 pitchers total had been used. A twentieth pitcher, nonetheless, didn’t attain the mound.
Had the sport gone to the nineteenth, it appeared as if the Dodgers had been prepared to make use of Game 2 starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who pitched a full recreation victory simply two nights prior. But Freeman insured that that will not be needed.
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The reigning World Series MVP hit a walk-off solo house run over the middle area wall off Little to safe the Dodgers’ win and additional cement his identify in World Series lore.
In World Series win over the Yankees, Freeman hit a walk-off grand slam to safe Game 1. And with Monday’s blast, he turned the primary participant with two walk-off house runs in World Series history.
What a night. What a recreation.