Toronto Blue Jays hopefully game four World Series would end in victory after the Los Angeles Dodgers won Game 3 in the 18th inning.
Monday's six-and-a-half-hour game in Los Angeles, California, tied the longest World Series game ever recorded – the 18-inning Game 3 at Dodger Stadium seven years ago.
It was a classic, requiring extra innings to break a 5-5 deadlock that had persisted since the seventh inning.
Canadian Freddie Freeman scored in the bottom of the 18th, sealing the Dodgers' 6–5 victory and a 2–1 series lead for the defending champions.
“This game has to be considered one of the greatest games of all time,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.
Most fans in the crowd of 52,654 who stuck around were on their feet the entire time, including 89-year-old Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax, and sat down only between innings. At Toronto's Rogers Centre, thousands of fans gathered for the party and stayed until the very end – 2:50 a.m. Tuesday – hoping for a Blue Jays victory.
Home runs by Teoscar Hernandez in the second inning and Shohei Ohtani in the third gave the Dodgers a 2–0 lead. Toronto rallied with four runs — two unearned on a Tommy Edman error — to take a 4-2 lead into the fourth.
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Alejandro Kirk hit a three-run home run off Dodgers starter Tyler Glasnow and excitedly raced across the Blue Jays' bench, holding his home run jacket. Andres Jimenez added a sacrifice fly before Glasnow finished the 29-pitch inning.
Los Angeles tied the game at four in the fifth. With two outs in the seventh, Toronto's Vladimir Guerrero Jr. singled off reliever Blake Treinen and scored on Beau Bichette's hot single down the right field line for a 5–4 lead. Ohtani's second solo homer tied the game at 5-5 in the seventh.
“The most important thing is we won,” Ohtani said through a translator after the game.
“The most important thing is we turn the page and play the next game… I want to go to bed as soon as possible to get ready.”
Toronto pitcher Shane Bieber will make his first World Series start and fourth of this postseason in Game 4, facing Ohtani on the mound.
“The Dodgers didn't win the World Series today,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said.
“They won the game.”
First pitch is set for 8 pm ET on Tuesday.
— with files from The Canadian Press
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