Front Row Seat: Dodgers win Game 3 on Freeman's 18th inning HR
They play again tonight, somehow.
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World Series
Dodgers outlast Blue Jays in classic, 18-inning Game 3 to take 2-1 lead in World Series - The Athletic
On a night when Shohei Ohtani could not be subdued, on a night when one of baseball’s cathedrals offered its entrants a baptism in the sport’s capacity for agony and ecstasy, on a night when the shame that the game had to end morphed into the fear that it never would, the Los Angeles Dodgers captured control of the World Series in a 6-5 Game 3 victory in 18 innings over the Toronto Blue Jays.
At 11:50 p.m., six hours and 39 minutes after the first pitch arrived, Freddie Freeman supplied the walk-off home run off Toronto reliever Brendon Little to send the Dodger Stadium crowd into the sort of rapture possible only after two full games’ worth of teeth-grinding, stomach-turning, heart-rending baseball. At the end of the joint-longest game in World Series history, the fans were exhausted. They were exhilarated. As Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.” blared across Chavez Ravine, they were heading to the parking lots knowing the Dodgers were two victories away from a second consecutive world championship.
Dodgers Outlast Blue Jays in 18 Innings To Win Epic World Series Game 3 - FanGraphs
What took place on October 27, 2025 at Dodger Stadium ranks right up there with the best World Series games ever played. In an affair that lasted deep into the night and featured heroics from multiple players, it was Freddie Freeman who finally ended it. Leading off the bottom of the 18th inning, the Dodgers first baseman launched a home run to straightaway center field to walk off the Blue Jays, 6-5, in Game 3 and give Los Angeles a two-games-to-one lead in the World Series.
With Ohtani's onslaught, Blue Jays won't abandon walk strategy - ESPN
"[Ohtani] had a great game, he's a great player, but I think after that, you just kind of take the bat out of his hands."
Schneider was asked whether the strategy to walk Ohtani will extend to the rest of the series.
"Yeah," he responded.
If You Went To Sleep, Sorry But You Are Not Forgiven - Defector
I think we can all agree we got cheated last night, and to be technical about it, it was still last night—at least on the West Coast where the nice people live—when Freddie Freeman hit the 609th pitch of Game 3 of the 2025 World Series into the darkness beyond center field. We stayed up as a nation through 399 minutes of magnificent, tortuous, agonizing, and weirdly theoretical baseball (except, of course, for you contemptible candypants weenies who "needed your sleep" or whatever other weak-tea excuse you used to justify your sloth), and we were this close to Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts having to make the most agonizing choice in managerial history.
Whether to bring in Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the pitcher who just threw a complete game 48 hours earlier, for the 19th inning that never happened. It would have been a dangerous, valorous, stupid, and entirely noble move made possible only because Yamamoto himself volunteered to do so. It was a total hero play by the only person who could have made it given the context. It would have been the event of not only this baseball season but this calendar year, even if he'd been battered.
World Series 2025: Blue Jays slugger George Springer leaves Game 3 loss to Dodgers due to side injury after swing - Yahoo Sports
Toronto Blue Jays slugger George Springer was in pain after a big swing and had to leave Monday's World Series Game 3 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers due to an apparent side injury.
The injury took place with the game tied 4-4 in the seventh inning. Springer walked away from the plate and clutched his side after fouling off a pitch from Justin Wrobleski. He immediately walked to the Toronto dugout and then into the tunnel.
