Monday, October 27, 2025
Laurie and I settled in at 5:00 p.m. by the TV for the start of the Blue Jays-Dodgers' World Series game.
I was going to attend a dandy C.I.F.-Southern Section Flag football quarterfinal playoff game that had the Huntington Beach H.S. Oilers (24-1) playing at the Camarillo H.S. Scorpions (25-2) but I decided instead to sit next to the Dodgers #1 fan in Ventura County and help her get through another game.
Good call.
Little did we know what an amazing game we would be watching.
By the way, Huntington Beach (25-1) won the playoff game, 20-6, thus beating the Scorpions (25-3) for the second time this year.
Game 3 of the World Series
saw the teams tied at a win apiece
It was the first World Series game in Los Angeles after playing the first two in Toronto.
Out of curiosity, I looked to StubHub to see what two tickets to the game were going for on the secondary market.
The price range that I found ranged from a low of $698 per ticket to a high of $3,168 per ducat.
Sitting at home watching the game unfold was definitely the call.
Price gouging for parking?
We had a sold out game. Now, forgetting about oversized vehicles, and the Dodger Stadium parking lot able to hold 16,000 cars, that meant a potential windfall of $1,280,000 in parking revenues alone.
That would be more than enough to pay for about six weeks of Brian Kelly's LSU buyout.
Max Scherzer vs. Tyler Glasnow
was an excellent pitching matchup
Once again, Shohei Otani was
INCREDIBLE!
While his heroics certainly kept the Dodgers' hoped alive, they were still not enough for a win.
This Game 3 was one for the ages
that went to extra innings
LOTS of extra innings
At this point, both much maligned bullpens had combined for NINE consecutive shutout innings.
It would go a bit longer.
Who the hell is Will Klein?
Why the latest Dodgers' unlikely World Series hero of course Move over Sandy Amoros.
He pitched the final four innings of this 18 inning marathon, allowing no runs.
It was an amazing performance by the last pitcher available in the Dodgers' bullpen although Game Two starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto was warming up during the 18th inning if needed.
By the end of the top of the 18th inning, the Dodgers' relievers had extended their shutout streak to an astounding 11 innings.
It included a great effort by Clayton Kershaw who was brought in to face a lone batter with the basses loaded in the 12th inning. The future Hall-of-Fame hurler induced a dramatic ground ball out to end the Toronto threat.
As the game reached the bottom of the 18th inning, the Dodgers had used ten pitchers, the Blue Jays nine.
So this was the situation that the
Dodgers clutch hitter Freddie Freeman
was facing to lead off the Dodgers
half of the 18th inning
Full count, nobody on, could he come through one more time?
A walk-off Home Run to the deepest
part of Blue Heaven on Earth in
straightaway Center Field worked!
dodgers win!
Dodgers Win!!
DODGERS WIN!!!
WHAT A GAME!
This epic game tied the 2018 game
between the Dodgers and the Boston
Red Sox for the longest contest
in World Series history at 18 innings
The Dodgers won that game too, thanks to a walk off home run by Max Muncy.
Both teams made some great
defensive plays too
How did that bon vivant Waldo
get the moolah for a game ticket?
The game ended just before midnight. We were both glad that we did not have to pick up the grandkids for school in the morning.
For those that did need to go to work on Tuesday . . .
. . . the Dodgers had their backs!
For the Dodgers, the Road to the Title
now stands at 11 postseason wins down,
TWO WINS TO GO!
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