With a home run by Freddie Freeman, the Los Angeles Dodgers, current champions, beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-5 in 18 innings, to tie the longest game in a World Series, which had not been repeated since 2018. The feat was experienced yesterday in the third game that was played at the home of the Californian ninth, leaving the lead 2-1 in their favor.
The last time a Fall Classic game went to extra innings at Dodger Stadium, 18 innings were played with a victory for the Boston Red Sox.
With Shohei Ohtani in his role as an intractable dictator and the Mexican Alejandro Kirk in a big way, Angelenos and Canadians offered the more than 50 thousand fans an unparalleled spectacle of almost seven hours.
Ohtani hit two home runs and tied a 119-year-old major league record with four extra-base hits in Game 3 of the World Series, delivering another historic postseason performance at Dodger Stadium.
The Japanese hit his sixth home run in the Dodgers’ last four games, and equaled Corey Seager’s eight home runs in 2020, the most homers by a Dodgers player in a single postseason. He is two away from Randy Arozarena’s record for home runs in a postseason.
His 4 extra-base hits tied Frank Isbell’s mark (Game 5, 1906) for the most in a single Fall Classic game. He is also the first player with three multi-home run games in a postseason.
Teoscar Hernández and Shohei hit two home runs in the second and third innings respectively, which gave the hosts an early 2-0 lead, to the joy of the fans in the Los Angeles building.
In the next reel, Dodger Stadium fell silent. With a three-run home run, Mexican Alejandro Kirk led his team’s turnaround to go ahead 3-2. The one from Tijuana, who in game 1 became the first Mexican to score a home run in a Fall Classic, hit his second home run in the Series and his fifth in the postseason.
Kirk, 26 years old, became the first tricolor player with two home runs in a World Series.
In that same episode, Andrés Giménez sent a sacrifice fly to center field and Addison Berger scored on a “step and run” to increase the Canadians’ lead (4-2).
A double by Ohtani in the fifth inning sent Kiké Hernández to the scorer so that the Angelenos could close the gap (3-4). Freddie Freeman’s hit sent the Japanese into the end zone to tie the game at 4 runs.
In the fateful Bo Bichette sent a deep single to right field and Vladimir Guerrero came home so that Toronto regained the lead momentarily.
The Japanese phenomenon again. The Asian player hit a solo home run against Seranthony Domínguez to make his second solo hit in the middle of left field and tie the score again in the seventh.
In the tenth inning the Dodgers avoided the Blue Jays’ conversion to maintain the score and the numbers remained the same until the 18th roll.
Betts wins the Roberto Clemente Award
Dodgers star Mookie Betts won the Roberto Clemente Award for his humanitarian work.
The player received the recognition before the third game of the World Series, accompanied by commissioner Rob Manfred and Clemente’s sons, Luis and Roberto.
“Life is more than what you do work-wise. It’s about how you impact others,” Betts said. “We live by that. So when we meet someone, we always make them smile, we do what we can to help them, and the Lord blesses you.”
