When Shohei Ohtani isn’t rewriting baseball’s record books, he’s rewriting your bedtime.
But just in case you didn’t make it up until nearly 3 a.m. East Coast time, here’s what you missed as the Dodgers and their incomparable showman prevailed in an 18-inning World Series epic, defeating the Blue Jays, 6-5, in Game 3 after six hours and 39 minutes:
• Freddie Freeman hit the walk-off home run, going out to dead center against the Blue Jays’ Brendon Little. Where have we seen that before? Oh yes, Freeman hit the walk-off grand slam to beat the Yankees in Game 1 of last year’s World Series. He’s now the first player with multiple walk-off World Series homers.
• The superlatives belong to Ohtani, who reached base nine times. The previous high for a World Series game was six. “Ohtani rose above it all. One for the record books. One for the memory bank. One of a kind,” noti.group’s Joel Sherman writes in his post-game column.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
