Wow!

World Series Game 3 ended at 12:26 a.m. Tuesday morning, and I’m still bleary-eyed as I write this. Perhaps the most thrilling, exhausting and inspiring baseball game of our lives, we witnessed history being rewritten again and again. After 18 innings of pure slug-fest baseball, the Dodgers finally outlasted a powerhouse Toronto Blue Jays team in what will be remembered as a forever, never-to-be-forgotten classic.

Shohei Ohtani hit two more home runs and somehow reached base an unbelievable nine times. Retiring Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw was thrust into a two-out, bases-loaded nightmare — only to escape with an inning-ending grounder, earning the final exclamation point of his career: Man of Steel. Ordinary men would’ve had strokes on the mound last night.

Local hero Tyler Glasnow pitched a strong game, but by inning 18 every Dodger reliever was called up — even through Rōki Sasaki to unlikely hero Will Klein, who, after pitching only a handful of innings in the majors, delivered the performance of his life — shutting out the Jays for four straight, hair-raising innings.

And then — mercifully — Canadian-American Freddie Freeman freed us all with his walk-off homer, ending the delirium and the suffering at 18 innings and 12:26 a.m.

If you missed it, find a replay. It was pure Dodger magic. Pure baseball magic. We love L.A. Go Dodgers!

Much........

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