Los Angeles Dodgers outlast Toronto Blue Jays after Freddie Freeman’s 18th inning dwelling run clinches a 2-1 sequence lead.
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Freddie Freeman hit a game-ending dwelling run within the 18th inning, Shohei Ohtani hit two homers and the Los Angeles Dodgers pulled off a 6-5 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday in Recreation 3 of the Main League Baseball (MLB) World Collection.
Teoscar Hernandez additionally hit a house run, whereas Ohtani added two doubles and reached base a postseason-record 9 instances with 5 walks (4 intentional) because the Dodgers pulled in entrance 2-1 within the best-of-seven sequence after dropping Recreation 1 at Toronto.
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The 18-inning sport matched the longest in World Collection historical past, additionally at Los Angeles in 2018 in opposition to the Boston Crimson Sox. Monday’s contest lasted 6 hours, 39 minutes – the second-longest World Collection sport by time.
Recreation 4 is on Tuesday in Los Angeles, with Ohtani opposing Toronto right-hander Shane Bieber.
Freeman’s leadoff dwelling run within the 18th got here in opposition to left-hander Brendon Little (0-2) and made a winner of Los Angeles right-hander Will Klein (1-0), who gave up one hit with 5 strikeouts over 4 scoreless innings.
Ohtani hit dwelling runs within the third and seventh innings and has 5 dwelling runs over his final two dwelling playoff video games. Seldom-used right-handers Edgardo Henriquez and Klein mixed to pitch six scoreless innings as Los Angeles used a World Collection-record 10 pitchers, together with left-hander Clayton Kershaw for one out to flee a bases-loaded jam within the twelfth.
Alejandro Kirk hit a house run for the Blue Jays, who’ve misplaced consecutive video games after scoring 11 runs of their Recreation 1 victory at dwelling. Toronto used 9 pitchers, with left-hander Eric Lauer pitching 4 2/3 scoreless innings in reduction.
The Dodgers took a 1-0 lead within the second on Hernandez’s dwelling run, his fifth of the postseason. Ohtani gave the Dodgers a 2-0 lead with a house run down the best area line within the third.
The Blue Jays took the lead with a four-run fourth that included a three-run dwelling run from Kirk and a sacrifice fly from Andres Gimenez for a 4-2 benefit.
The Dodgers acquired even at 4-4 within the fifth on a one-out RBI double from Ohtani and a two-out RBI single simply inside first base by Freeman.
After Toronto’s George Springer departed with an damage to steer off the seventh, the Blue Jays pushed forward 5-4 within the inning on a two-out single from Guerrero off right-hander Blake Treinen and an RBI single from Bichette to attain Guerrero from first base.
Ohtani’s fifth dwelling run in his final two playoff video games at Los Angeles, this one off right-hander Seranthony Dominguez, tied the rating 5-5 within the seventh. It was Ohtani’s eighth of the postseason and third of the World Collection.
Dodgers second baseman Tommy Edman threw out Isiah Kiner-Falefa attempting to advance to 3rd base within the ninth and threw Davis Schneider out at dwelling to finish the highest of the tenth on a relay from Hernandez in proper area.
