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Dodgers walk-off World Series Game 3 in the 18th inning, beat the Blue Jays 6-5
The L.A. Dodgers have won Game 3 with a walk-off home run in the 18th inning, beating the Toronto Blue Jays 6-5 and taking a 2-1 series lead.
Freddie Freeman homered in the 18th inning to give the Dodgers the win, tying the longest game in World Series history. The game lasted six hours and 39 minutes.
Game 4 is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. on Tuesday
Shohei Ohtani tied up the game in the seventh inning and there were no runs until Freeman’s home run 11 innings later.
Dodgers’ Teoscar Hernandez and Ohtani homered in the second and third inning off of Max Scherzer to start the scoring.
The fourth inning kicked off with a walk for Vladimir Guerrero Jr. before Bichette reached on an error on the next at-bat.
Kirk brought them home with a blast off of pitcher Tyler Glasnow, quieting the Dodgers faithful.
Blue Jays added one more run with a sacrifice fly from Andrés Giménez that brought Addison Barger, ending the inning 4-2.
In the fifth inning, Enrique Hernández score off a double from Ohtani who came home on a Freemon single to right field, tying the game at 4-4.
Scherzer was pulled after 4.1 innings and 79 pitches on Monday night. He struck out three batters while allowing five hits, three runs and one walk.
In the seventh inning, a single from Bo Bichette sent Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to home plate where he beat the ball to give the Jays a short-lived lead 5-4 before the Ohtani home run..
By starting Monday’s game, Scherzer became the first player to pitch in the World Series for four different teams. He had previously taken the mound in the Fall Classic with the Texas Rangers, Washington Nationals and Detroit Tigers.
Ohtani also made history, tying a 119-year-old major league record with four extra-base hits.
The World Series is tied 2-1 for the Dodgers.
With files from Sportsnet Staff
