Freddie Freeman is Dodgers’ World Series walk-off hero again in 18-inning marathon win

• Freddie Freeman hits a walk-off home run in the 18th inning to give the Dodgers a 6-5 victory over Toronto in Game 3 of the World Series and a 2-1 series lead.
• The nearly seven-hour marathon unfolds with wild momentum swings in a game that ties the record for most innings in a World Series game.
• Shohei Ohtani matched a World Series single-game record with four extra-base hits. He also reached base a World Series-record nine times.

In the twilight hours of the early evening, before one of baseball’s most remarkable nights transformed from relatively normal to patently absurd, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts thought he knew where Game 3 of the World Series was heading.

“Ultimately,” he said during an in-game interview with the Fox television broadcast, “it’s gonna be a battle of the bullpens tonight.”

Turned out, it would escalate into an 18-inning war.

In a game that tested mental mettle, physical stamina, emotional composure and the most extreme limits of both teams’ bullpens, the Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays tied a record for the longest World Series game ever played on Monday... read more