Another big Sho: Ohtani hits 2 homers against Blue Jays, ties record in World Series Game 3

Shohei Ohtani homered twice and tied a 119-year-old major league record with four extra-base hits in Game 3 of the World Series on Monday night, putting on yet another historic postseason show at Dodger Stadium.

After his four-hit barrage in the first seven innings, Ohtani drew five consecutive walks in this epic 18-inning World Series game, making him the first major leaguer in 83 years to reach base nine times in any game, let alone the postseason.

The Dodgers finally won 6-5 on Freddie Freeman's walk-off homer leading off the 18th.

"What matters the most is we won," Ohtani said through his interpreter. "And what I accomplished today is in the context of this game, and what matters the most is we flip the page and play the next game."

Freeman's latest clutch homer cleared the fence just over 17 hours before Ohtani will make his first World Series start on the mound when he pitches for the Dodgers in Game 4 on Tuesday night.

"I want to go to sleep as soon as possible so I can get ready," a smiling Ohtani said.

Ohtani led off the bottom of the first with a ground-rule double to right field. He followed with a solo homer to right in the third inning off Toronto starter Max Scherzer and added an RBI double in the fifth off reliever Mason Fluharty during a tying rally for Los Angeles.

Ohtani then hit a tying solo homer off Seranthony Dominguez with one out in the seventh. It was his sixth homer in the Dodgers' last four games, and he tied Corey Seager's eight homers in 2020 for the most by a Dodgers player in a single postseason.

The Blue Jays had seen enough of Ohtani by then: Manager John Schneider intentionally walked him in the ninth, 11th, 13th and 15th innings — and the gambit worked each time, with Ohtani's teammates