The Dodgers’ historic World Series Game 3 victory, by the numbers
LOS ANGELES AP The Los Angeles Dodgers outlasted the Toronto Blue Jays with a - -inning win in Challenge of the World Series on Monday night producing a lengthy list of records topped by Shohei Ohtani as they took a - lead in the best-of-seven matchup Ohtani was the Dodgers designated hitter a day before he is to pitch in Meeting and had one of the greater part memorable games at the plate in World Series history Here are numbers to know from a Fall Classic showdown to remember Freddie Freeman s career total for walk-off World Series homers Freeman who hit the game-ending Grand Slam in last year s Series opener against the New York Yankees Nestor Cortes became the only athlete with two World Series walk-off home runs Three other players have hit two in postseason play Carlos Correa David Ortiz and Bernie Williams Multihomer games by Ohtani this postseason Ohtani has a record number of multihomer games this postseason He had a two-homer performance in the Wild Card Series opener against Cincinnati then hit three homers in Encounter of the National League Championship Series versus Milwaukee when he also pitched six-plus scoreless innings with strikeouts Ohtani has eight homers this postseason two shy of Randy Arozarena s record for a single postseason set in Ohtani s number of extra-base hits and intentional walks Ohtani s two home runs and two doubles matched a record for extra-base hits in a World Series contest set in Tournament in by Frank Isbell who had four doubles for the Chicago White Sox in an - win over the Chicago Cubs Ohtani was intentionally walked four times including three times with no runners on base There had been only one previous World Series intentional walk with nobody on to the St Louis Cardinals Albert Pujols in Event in Ohtani s four overall intentional walks were one shy of the record in any meeting since it became an official statistic in The Cubs Andre Dawson was intentionally walked five times by Cincinnati on May during Chicago s - -inning win Times Ohtani reached base Ohtani doubled in the first inning homered in the third hit an RBI double in the fifth and a tying solo homer in the seventh He was intentionally walked in the ninth th th and th innings then walked unintentionally on four pitches in the th He tied the record shared by three people who reached that a multitude of times in regular-season games according to the Elias Sports Bureau Max Carey on July Johnny Burnett on July and Stan Hack on Aug Pitchers used by Los Angeles The Dodgers set a Series record by using pitchers urgent a mark shared by the Chicago White Sox in Challenge the Dodgers in Contest in and the Dodgers and Red Sox in Challenge in The postseason record of was set by San Diego in Meeting of the NLDS The overall players who appeared were two shy of the Series mark set by the Dodgers and Red Sox in Event in Innings played tying a World Series record This challenge matched the longest in World Series history by innings set at Dodger Stadium seven years and one day earlier when Max Muncy homered against Nathan Eovaldi to give Los Angeles a - win over the Boston Red Sox There also have been three -inning games in earlier rounds Houston s - win over Atlanta in Meeting of a NL Division Series San Francisco s - triumph over Washington in Meeting of a NLDS and Houston s - win over Seattle that completed a three-game sweep in a ALDS Pitches thrown by Dodgers reliever Will Klein Klein got the win with four scoreless innings His pitches doubled his previous big league career high as did his four innings Total number of pitches Dodgers pitchers threw pitches and the Blue Jays accounted for hours minutes Time of meeting MLB s relatively new pitch clock helped keep this marathon moving When the Dodgers and Red Sox played innings in the contest lasted and ended at a m AP MLB https apnews com hub mlb Source
