The Dodgers beat the Blue Jays 6-5 Monday night (at least it was still Monday in Los Angeles) in an eighteen inning game ended by a Freddie Freeman home run.

The Blue Jays put a bat in the hands of every position player on their roster in this game, and it didn’t help their cause that their ALCS hero, George Springer, had to be replaced in the seventh because of right side discomfort that required further testing. Toronto’s 67 at-bats in this game set a World Series record, and the Blue Jays regrettably stranded a Series-record 19 runners.

The Dodgers set a Series team record, too, using 10 pitchers in all, including the retiring Clayton Kershaw in a relief role for a key out in the 12th. We knew we’d see one future Hall of Famer in this game with Max Scherzer starting for the Blue Jays, but Kershaw’s presence was definitely unscripted.

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The teams combined to go 4 for 26 with runners in scoring position, which made the game so edge of your seat. There were plenty of opportunities to end the game, and some fine defensive plays to keep that from happening.

Freeman is the first player to hit two walk off homers in World Series play, and Ohtani set a record by reaching base nine times on four hits and five walks, four of them intentional. A game for the ages.