Game 3 of the 2025 World Series was a classic.
From Toronto catcher Alejandro Kirk’s go-ahead three-run home run in the fourth inning to Shohei Ohtani’s four intentional walks and four extra-base hits — two of them homers — to the game-winning blast off the bat of Freddie Freeman in the 18th(!), it tied the record for the longest World Series game in history and was a thriller from start to finish.
As the Los Angeles Dodgers take a 2-1 series lead on the Toronto Blue Jays, here’s how their epic victory went down, with our in-game analysis and postgame takeaways.
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Takeaways
Dodgers lead series 2-1
It was over when …: The clock was 10 minutes shy of midnight in Los Angeles and three in the morning back in Toronto. The warm game-time temperatures had given way to a nighttime cold. And World Series Game 3 had stretched to unbelievably match Game 3 of the 2018 World Series — a record-tying 18 innings — when Freddie Freeman sent one over the center-field fence to give the Dodgers the 6-5 win a historic game, and a 2-1 edge in a series that somehow still feels like it’s just getting started. — Bradford Doolittle
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Game 3 star: The Game 3 star was the Dodgers’ Game 4 starting pitcher, and that was going to be the case no matter how the final outcome turned out. Shohei Ohtani has had some over-publicized hiccups at the plate, but starting with his historic National League Championship Series performance against the Milwaukee Brewers, he’s gone to another place. As in: Blue Jays manager John Schneider intentionally walked him with the bases empty in the ninth, putting the winning run on base. No batter had been walked in that situation in any postseason game since 1955. Then it happened three more times, followed by a not-intentional-but-don’t-throw-it-close walk. Ohtani became the first player to reach base seven, eight and finally nine times in a game, which also tied the regular-season record. Before that, he became the first player with four extra-base hits in a World Series game since Frank Isbell in the all-Chicago 1906 series. A 119-year-old hitting record tied on the day before the biggest start of your career? Sure, why not. This is what Ohtani is and it’s incredible to watch. — Doolittle
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