
Sarah Langs
LOS ANGELES — Eighteen innings. Six hours and 39 minutes. We have been handled to bonus baseball after which some in World Collection Recreation 3.
Seven years after the Dodgers and Crimson Sox set a World Collection report with an 18-inning game in Recreation 3 at Dodger Stadium, historical past repeated itself.
Alongside the way in which, Recreation 4 beginning pitcher Shohei Ohtani set multiple records as a hitter and Freddie Freeman based a brand new membership.
Freeman summed it up finest about Ohtani after the Dodgers’ 6-5 victory over the Blue Jays, noting, “Our beginning pitcher [later] tonight acquired on base 9 occasions tonight.”
Listed below are 11 stats and info from a recreation for the ages:
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• We had been right here earlier than. On this 18-inning World Collection recreation, the walk-off homer got here from Freeman, not Max Muncy. Talking of repeats, Freeman hit a walk-off grand slam in Recreation 1 of the World Collection final 12 months. Freeman’s two postseason walk-off house runs are tied for probably the most in postseason historical past, with David Ortiz, Carlos Correa and Bernie Williams. Freeman is the one one with two within the World Collection.
• The Dodgers now have 4 walk-off World Collection house runs. That ties the Yankees for probably the most. No different staff has even two.
• A recreation like this generates loads of gaudy numbers. The 19 mixed pitchers used have been probably the most in a recreation in postseason historical past. There have been 609 pitches thrown, 48 greater than in every other postseason recreation since a minimum of 2000. The sport took six hours and 39 minutes, the second-longest in postseason historical past by time behind seven hours and 20 minutes in 2018. There have been 37 mixed runners left on base, six greater than in every other recreation in postseason historical past.
• Eighteen innings tied for the longest recreation in postseason historical past, not simply the World Collection. And every of these 18-inning video games had a house run in that closing body, both a go-ahead by the highway staff or a walk-off. There was Jeremy Peña in 2022 ALDS Recreation 3, the aforementioned Muncy walk-off in 2018 World Collection Recreation 3, Brandon Belt in 2014 NLDS Recreation 2 and Chris Burke in 2005 NLDS Recreation 4.
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• Ohtani reached base 9 occasions, setting a postseason report, surpassing the earlier mark by three. That additionally tied the MLB report for any recreation, in accordance with the Elias Sports activities Bureau. The one gamers to succeed in 9 occasions in a regular-season recreation have been Stan Hack (Aug. 9, 1942), Johnny Burnett (July 10, 1932) and Max Carey (July 7, 1922).
• Ohtani had 4 extra-base hits in his first 4 plate appearances. That tied for probably the most extra-base hits in a World Collection recreation, becoming a member of Frank Isbell in 1906 Recreation 5.
• Two of these extra-base hits have been house runs, the third time this postseason Ohtani has hit a number of in a recreation. He’s the primary participant with three multihomer video games in a single postseason.
• Ohtani had 12 complete bases, a mark he additionally reached in NLCS Recreation 4. He’s the primary participant with a number of video games with a minimum of 12 complete bases in a single postseason. The one different participant with two such postseason video games in a profession is Babe Ruth.
• After his 4 extra-base hits, Ohtani was walked 5 occasions, 4 of which have been intentional. He’s the primary participant to be deliberately walked 4 occasions in a postseason recreation. Three of the intentional walks got here with the bases empty. He’s the primary participant to be deliberately walked with the bases empty a number of occasions in a postseason recreation. The one different participant to be deliberately walked with the bases empty in a World Collection recreation is Albert Pujols in 2011, Recreation 5.
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• That brings Ohtani’s intentional stroll complete to eight this postseason. That’s tied with 2011 Pujols for the second-most in a postseason, trailing solely 2002 Barry Bonds (13).
• Ohtani is also as much as eight house runs on this postseason, tying 2020 Corey Seager for probably the most in a single postseason in Dodgers historical past. The one participant to hit extra house runs in a single postseason is Randy Arozarena, who had 10 in 2020. Ohtani’s eight are probably the most out of the leadoff spot.
