Mlb World Reacts To Dodgers, Blue Jays Tying Longest Game In World Series History

Game 3 of nan World Series was 1 for nan ages.

The Dodgers and Blue Jays entered Game 3 astatine Dodger Stadium tied 1–1 successful nan series, and they remained moreover for much than 17 innings connected Monday night.

Early on, nan crippled was electric. The Dodgers struck first pinch solo home runs from Teoscar Hernández and Shohei Ohtani successful nan 2nd and 3rd innings, but nan Blue Jays fought backmost pinch 4 runs successful nan apical of 4th inning, including a three-run location tally from Alejandro Kirk. The Dodgers tied nan crippled successful nan 5th inning, earlier nan Blue Jays took a 5–4 lead disconnected a remarkable tally location from Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Ohtani past deed a historic 2nd location tally successful nan game, tying nan crippled erstwhile again astatine 5–5.

After that seventh inning, nan Blue Jays and Dodgers went scoreless for 10 and a half innings arsenic each squad emptied their bullpen. Toronto made galore changes to their batting lineup and Ohtani reached guidelines a grounds magnitude of times for a postseason game. Blue Jays reliever Eric Lauer sounded 4 2/3 scoreless innings, while nan Dodgers group a grounds for the astir relievers used successful a World Series game.

This was each until nan bottommost of nan 18th inning, erstwhile Freddie Freeman came up clutch erstwhile again successful nan World Series pinch a solo location tally to triumph nan game. The location tally gives nan Dodgers a 2-1 lead successful nan series, while nan Blue Jays will now look to travel backmost from an perfectly heartbreaking loss.

This tied nan longest crippled successful World Series history successful position of innings, tying Game 3 of nan 2018 World Series betwixt nan Dodgers and Red Sox. The Dodgers won that crippled disconnected a walk-off location tally from Max Muncy, but ended up losing nan series. Monday's crippled spanned astir six hours and 40 minutes, while that 2018 crippled was longer time-wise arsenic it lasted complete 7 hours.

As nan crippled stretched until nan 18th inning—until astir 3 a.m. connected nan East Coast—many group crossed MLB shared their reactions to nan never-ending thriller.

In 17 hours, somehow, these teams are group to return nan section again for Game 4.

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