Ohtani completes 119-year first as LA Dodgers win historic World Series epic

[ad_1] The LA Dodgers have received the equal-longest sport in World Sequence historical past, with Japanese nice Shohei Ohtani finishing a 119-year first and Freddie Freeman hitting an historic walk-off residence run.

The Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-5, with Freeman hitting the winner within the 18th inning of a match that newest six hours and 39 minutes.

Freeman's efforts had been a repeat of sport one within the 2024 collection, when he hit a walk-off residence run to sink the New York Yankees

Ohtani hit two residence runs and have become the second participant in historical past, and the primary since 1906, to have 4 extra-base hits in a World Sequence sport.

After his second residence run, the Blue Jays had seen sufficient and deliberately walked the Japanese star the subsequent 4 occasions he was on the plate.

That made Ohtani the primary participant to be deliberately walked 4 occasions in a put up season sport.

He had another at-bat, the place 4 balls had been thrown, and the Japanese star once more made it to first base.

Along with his 4 hits and 5 walks, he turned the primary participant in World Sequence historical past to achieve base 9 occasions in a single sport.

Ohtani led off the underside of the primary inning with a ground-rule double to proper discipline.

He adopted with a solo homer to proper within the third inning off Toronto starter Max Scherzer and added an RBI double within the fifth off reliever Mason Fluharty throughout a tying rally for Los Angeles.

Ohtani then hit a tying solo homer off Seranthony Domínguez with one out within the seventh.

It was his sixth homer within the Dodgers' final 4 video games, and he tied Corey Seager's eight homers in 2020 for essentially the most by a Dodgers participant in a single put up season.

After turning into the primary participant in MLB historical past with three multi-home run video games in a single put up season, Ohtani is 2 shy of Randy Arozarena's document for homers in a put up season.

Just one different participant in baseball historical past bought 4 extra-base hits in a World Sequence sport: Frank Isbell had 4 doubles for the Chicago White Sox in Sport 5 in 1906 in opposition to the Chicago Cubs.

Ohtani additionally turned the primary hitter to have a number of video games with a minimum of 12 whole bases in a single put up season.

The one different participant to have two such put up season video games in his profession was Babe Ruth.

Ohtani's second residence run tied the match at 5-5 within the seventh inning. The subsequent run wouldn't be scored till Freeman's homer to win the sport.

The 18 inning match was the equal longest World Sequence sport, tied with sport three of the 2018 collection between the Dodgers and the Boston Purple Sox.

The Dodgers used 10 completely different pitchers within the sport, one other World Sequence document.

The match was additionally the second longest when it comes to time, lasting six hours and 39 minutes. Sport three of the 2018 collection went over seven hours.