Shohei Ohtani homered twice and tied a 119-year-old major league record with four extra-base hits in Game 3 of the World Series on Monday night, putting on yet another historic postseason show at Dodger Stadium. The game itself was also historic—it was tied with four other games as the longest in Major League Baseball postseason history at 18 innings, per MLB.com—and also tied with one other game for the longest World Series game ever, per Heavy.com. The Los Angeles Dodgers ultimately beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-5 after a more than 7-hour-long game that finally ended with a walk-off homer by Freddie Freeman in the bottom of the 18th, the Los Angeles Times reports. More:
- Ohtani led off the bottom of the first inning with a ground-rule double to right field, the AP reports. He followed with a solo homer to right in the third inning off Toronto starter Max Scherzer and added an RBI double in the fifth off reliever Mason Fluharty during a tying rally for Los Angeles.
- Ohtani then hit a tying solo homer off Seranthony Domínguez with one out in the seventh. It was his sixth homer in the Dodgers' last four games, and he tied Corey Seager's eight homers in 2020 for the most by a Dodgers player in a single postseason.