Freeman, Dodgers win Game 3 against Toronto, take MLB World Series lead

Los Angeles Dodgers outlast Toronto Blue Jays aft Freddie Freeman’s 18th inning location tally clinches a 2-1 bid lead.

Freddie Freeman deed a game-ending location tally successful the 18th inning, Shohei Ohtani deed 2 homers and the Los Angeles Dodgers pulled disconnected a 6-5 triumph implicit the Toronto Blue Jays connected Monday successful Game 3 of the Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series.

Teoscar Hernandez besides deed a location run, portion Ohtani added 2 doubles and reached basal a postseason-record 9 times with 5 walks (four intentional) arsenic the Dodgers pulled successful beforehand 2-1 successful the best-of-seven bid aft losing Game 1 astatine Toronto.

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The 18-inning crippled matched the longest successful World Series history, besides astatine Los Angeles successful 2018 against the Boston Red Sox. Monday’s contention lasted 6 hours, 39 minutes – the second-longest World Series crippled by time.

Game 4 is connected Tuesday successful Los Angeles, with Ohtani opposing Toronto right-hander Shane Bieber.

Freeman’s leadoff location tally successful the 18th came against left-hander Brendon Little (0-2) and made a victor of Los Angeles right-hander Will Klein (1-0), who gave up 1 deed with 5 strikeouts implicit 4 scoreless innings.

Ohtani deed location runs successful the 3rd and seventh innings and has 5 location runs implicit his past 2 location playoff games. Seldom-used right-handers Edgardo Henriquez and Klein combined to transportation six scoreless innings arsenic Los Angeles utilized a World Series-record 10 pitchers, including left-hander Clayton Kershaw for 1 retired to flight a bases-loaded jam successful the 12th.

Alejandro Kirk deed a location tally for the Blue Jays, who person mislaid consecutive games aft scoring 11 runs successful their Game 1 triumph astatine home. Toronto utilized 9 pitchers, with left-hander Eric Lauer pitching 4 2/3 scoreless innings successful relief.

Freeman #5 of the Los Angeles Dodgers hits a walk-off location tally during the 18th inning against the Toronto Blue Jays successful Game 3 [Luke Hales/Getty Images via AFP]

The Dodgers took a 1-0 pb successful the 2nd connected Hernandez’s location run, his 5th of the postseason. Ohtani gave the Dodgers a 2-0 pb with a location tally down the close tract enactment successful the third.

The Blue Jays took the pb with a four-run 4th that included a three-run location tally from Kirk and a sacrifice alert from Andres Gimenez for a 4-2 advantage.

The Dodgers got adjacent astatine 4-4 successful the 5th connected a one-out RBI treble from Ohtani and a two-out RBI azygous conscionable wrong of archetypal basal by Freeman.

After Toronto’s George Springer departed with an wounded to pb disconnected the seventh, the Blue Jays pushed up 5-4 successful the inning connected a two-out azygous from Guerrero disconnected right-hander Blake Treinen and an RBI azygous from Bichette to people Guerrero from archetypal base.

Ohtani’s 5th location tally successful his past 2 playoff games astatine Los Angeles, this 1 disconnected right-hander Seranthony Dominguez, tied the people 5-5 successful the seventh. It was Ohtani’s eighth of the postseason and 3rd of the World Series.

Dodgers 2nd baseman Tommy Edman threw retired Isiah Kiner-Falefa trying to beforehand to 3rd basal successful the ninth and threw Davis Schneider retired astatine location to extremity the apical of the 10th connected a relay from Hernandez successful close field.