LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers outlasted the Toronto Blue Jays with a 6-5, 18-inning win in Recreation 3 of the World Sequence on Monday night time, producing a prolonged record of information topped by Shohei Ohtani as they took a 2-1 lead within the best-of-seven matchup.
Ohtani was the Dodgers’ designated hitter a day earlier than he’s to pitch in Recreation 4 and had some of the memorable video games on the plate in World Sequence historical past.
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2: Freddie Freeman’s profession whole for walk-off World Sequence homers
Freeman, who hit the game-ending Grand Slam in final yr’s Sequence opener in opposition to the New York Yankees’ Nestor Cortes, turned the one participant with two World Sequence walk-off dwelling runs. Three different gamers have hit two in postseason play: Carlos Correa, David Ortiz and Bernie Williams.
3: Multihomer video games by Ohtani this postseason
Ohtani has a file variety of multihomer video games this postseason. He had a two-homer efficiency within the Wild Card Sequence opener in opposition to Cincinnati, then hit three homers in Recreation 4 of the Nationwide League Championship Sequence versus Milwaukee, when he additionally pitched six-plus scoreless innings with 10 strikeouts. Ohtani has eight homers this postseason, two shy of Randy Arozarena’s file for a single postseason set in 2020.
4: Ohtani’s variety of extra-base hits and intentional walks
Ohtani’s two dwelling runs and two doubles matched a file for extra-base hits in a World Sequence contest set in Recreation 5 in 1906 by Frank Isbell, who had 4 doubles for the Chicago White Sox in an 8-6 win over the Chicago Cubs.
Ohtani was deliberately walked 4 instances, together with 3 times with no runners on base. There had been just one earlier World Sequence intentional stroll with no person on, to the St. Louis Cardinals’ Albert Pujols in Recreation 5 in 2011. Ohtani’s 4 general intentional walks had been one shy of the file in any recreation because it turned an official statistic in 1955. The Cubs’ Andre Dawson was deliberately walked 5 instances by Cincinnati on Might 22, 1990, throughout Chicago’s 2-1, 16-inning win.
9: Occasions Ohtani reached base
Ohtani doubled within the first inning, homered within the third, hit an RBI double within the fifth and a tying solo homer within the seventh. He was deliberately walked within the ninth, eleventh, thirteenth and fifteenth innings, then walked unintentionally on 4 pitches within the seventeenth. He tied the file shared by three individuals who reached that many instances in regular-season video games, based on the Elias Sports activities Bureau: Max Carey on July 7, 1922, Johnny Burnett on July 10, 1932, and Stan Hack on Aug. 9, 1942.
10: Pitchers utilized by Los Angeles
The Dodgers set a Sequence file by utilizing 10 pitchers, breaking a mark shared by the 2005 Chicago White Sox in Recreation 3, the Dodgers in Recreation 2 in 2017 and the Dodgers and Pink Sox in Recreation 3 in 2018. The postseason file of 11 was set by San Diego in Recreation 3 of the 2020 NLDS. The 44 general gamers who appeared had been two shy of the Sequence mark set by the Dodgers and Pink Sox in Recreation 3 in 2018.
18: Innings performed, tying a World Sequence file
This recreation matched the longest in World Sequence historical past by innings, set at Dodger Stadium seven years and in the future earlier, when Max Muncy homered in opposition to Nathan Eovaldi to offer Los Angeles a 3-2 win over the Boston Pink Sox. There even have been three 18-inning video games in earlier rounds: Houston’s 7-6 win over Atlanta in Recreation 4 of a 2005 NL Division Sequence, San Francisco’s 2-1 victory over Washington in Recreation 2 of a 2014 NLDS and Houston’s 1-0 win over Seattle that accomplished a three-game sweep in a 2022 ALDS.
72: Pitches thrown by Dodgers reliever Will Klein
Klein bought the win with 4 scoreless innings. His 72 pitches doubled his earlier massive league profession excessive, as did his 4 innings.
609: Complete variety of pitches
Dodgers pitchers threw 312 pitches and the Blue Jays accounted for 297.
6 hours, 39 minutes: Time of recreation
MLB’s comparatively new pitch clock helped hold this marathon transferring. When the Dodgers and Pink Sox performed 18 innings in 2018, the sport lasted 7:20 and ended at 12:30 a.m.
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