When Shohei Ohtani isn’t rewriting baseball’s file books, he’s rewriting your bedtime.
However simply in case you didn’t make it up till practically 3 a.m. East Coast time, right here’s what you missed because the Dodgers and their incomparable showman prevailed in an 18-inning World Collection epic, defeating the Blue Jays, 6-5, in Sport 3 after six hours and 39 minutes:
• Freddie Freeman hit the walk-off dwelling run, going out to useless heart in opposition to the Blue Jays’ Brendon Little. The place have we seen that earlier than? Oh sure, Freeman hit the walk-off grand slam to beat the Yankees in Sport 1 of final yr’s World Collection. He’s now the primary participant with a number of walk-off World Collection homers.
• The superlatives belong to Ohtani, who reached base 9 instances. The earlier excessive for a World Collection sport was six. “Ohtani rose above all of it. One for the file books. One for the reminiscence financial institution. One in all a sort,” The Publish’s Joel Sherman writes in his post-game column.
