Explained: How Freddie Freeman and the Los Angeles Dodgers made history with walk-off homer against Blue Jays in World Series Game 3
Updated 28/10/2025 at 08:44 GMT
Game 3 of the 2025 World Series was one for the ages as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-5. The game lasted six hours and 39 minutes and was the tied-longest in World Series history. It was eventually decided by Freddie Freeman's walk-off home run in the bottom of the 18th. Shohei Ohtani starred for the Dodgers with two home runs and a record nine base appearances.
18th inning walk-off! Freeman wins Game 3 epic for Dodgers
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Freddie Freeman hit a walk-off home run in the 18th inning as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Bays 6-5 in an epic Game 3 of the World Series.
Coming in at six hours and 39 minutes, it tied the longest match in World Series history, also at Dodger Stadium in 2018.
Two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani was again the standout player as the Dodgers took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series.
Ohtani went 4-4 at the plate to start the night, including two home runs.
The Jays then decided not to give Ohtani another chance to hit as they intentionally walked him in the ninth, 11th, 13th and 15th innings.
He was unintentionally walked in the 17th inning to become the first player in MLB history to reach base nine times in one post-season game, breaking the previous record of six.Â
He is also the first player to be intentionally walked four times in a post-season game.
Ohtani is set to be the starting pitcher in Game 4 in LA on Tuesday evening.
"I want to go to sleep as soon as possible so I can get ready," said Ohtani through a translator after the epic win.
"What matters most is that we won. We flip the page and get ready for the next one."
Game 3 swung back and forth as the Jays fought back from a 2-0 hole to lead 4-2.
But the defending champion Dodgers levelled at 4-4 in the fifth innings as Jays starting pitcher Max Scherzer was replaced.
Ohtani scored Enrique Hernandez with his third hit of the game and then Freeman got Ohtani home.
Ohtani's second homer made it 5-5 in the bottom of the seventh and it stayed that way until the 18th.
Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw saved a bases-loaded situation at the top of the 12th and then Freeman couldn’t finish the game from the same situation in the bottom of the 13th.
There was no more scoring until the bottom of the 18th when Freeman hit a home run down the middle to spark wild celebrations.
The 609 combined pitches thrown was the most in World Series history.
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