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LOS ANGELES – At 23:40, at the Pacific Coast time, when the third game of the World Series lasted only six and a half hours, barely a teenager in a marathon, the Dodger's display board Stadium burst into Prince-inspired dance music. "Dear friends, began the song, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life.
Really? Do not get through this thing called Game 3? The party of the Let's Go Crazy party arrived a few laps later for the Los Angeles Dodgers, at the bottom of the 18th round of the longest match in the history of the World Series – the longest in the world. 39; history. far in turns or in time, a prodigious, absurd monstrosity of seven hours, twenty minutes.
It's at 12:30 pm Pacific Coast time – or 3:30 am on the east coast – that the Dodger sniper, Max Muncy, opened the pass over the downtown fence. center off Nathan Eovaldi, who started his seventh round in relief, for a 3-2 win that has reduced the Boston Red Sox's lead in this two-game series to one.
It's over. At least I think it's over. Please tell me that's it.
The more difficult the victory, the more the winners think that means. And sometimes, this belief has its own weight.
"Whoever wins will have a lot of momentum," said Muncy, slightly cheerful, too exhausted to show his enthusiasm. "Both teams used all the players that they had, almost all the throwers, there had been injuries. You must feel that it gives you a boost for the next one. "
[Dodgers outlast Red Sox in 18-inning marathon to tighten the World Series]
Although millions of fans, in almost all time zones, with the exception of Hawaii, only see this game as a rumor or as a waste of hours before going to bed, the vast majority of This blue Dodger crowd made up of 53,118 people think of it as one of the most memorable sports crescendos that they have seen.
"There were still 40,000 people in this park at the end of it – after which, more than seven hours? What a great win for Dodger, "said Dave Roberts, director of Dodger. Then he added, "Our host is in pretty good shape for the fourth game."
"LA has a reputation: get late, leave early," Muncy said. "Tonight, they arrived early and stayed late – and they were noisy until the end."
The fourth match and a test drive of the Dodger momentum will begin 15 1/2 hours after Muncy's return. LA southpaw Rich Hill will face all the Red Sox can find to lift the ball since they burned their thrower scheduled for the fourth game. Eovaldi, relieved by the marathon, even used David Price, star of game 2, for three batters at a time. Look for the modest southpaw Drew Pomeranz to climb the mound, at least for a few rounds.
In retrospect, Roberts has mastered his records. Kenley Jansen, Pedro Baez and Kenta Maeda all had two runs each. Dyan Floro had five outs. But others had a modest job. Red Sox rookie manager Alex Cora will also ironically have a half-empty pen – he has burned seven relief players so fast that they should not be too tired on Saturday.
There are two theories about this game. First of all, this contest – remarkable, sometimes comical and as strange as it was – will be little noted or retained for a long time, because the Red Sox are better, the Red Sox always lead this series and finish the job. So, suppose this fabulously ridiculous thing never happened.
Forget the matching solo circuits of Joc Pederson and Jackie Bradley, Jr., who was the only brand in the first 11 innings. Do not worry about the two undefeated rounds of the 12th round – one for each team – which were almost identical gifts built on starting walks and ended with wild throws (Scott Alexander, Dodgers and Brian Dozier, Red Sox) brought back ill-gotten races at home.
The second theory will soon be tested. From this point of view, the brilliant right-hander Dodger Walker Buehler, a rookie with raw materials as good as any pitcher in the game and great confidence, also changed the momentum of this series with his seven white sleeves, allowing only two Red Sox to reach the base, both on harmless singles. He completely dominated the best baseball offense.
That counts for a double force, because Buehler would be programmed to start a game 7, if the Dodgers can do it. Yes, it would be "Walker Buehler's day". And if he duplicates Friday's performance, they may have to shoot a Hollywood movie about it.
For those who wonder if a powerful thrower of the 3rd match presented by a star thrower can swing a whole world series, even if the team of this ace drags by two games when he takes the mound, I refer you at play 3 of the years 1978, & 81 and & # 39; 85 series of the world. Ron Guidry, Fernando Valenzuela and Bret Saberhagen were the starters in the full match of the Yankees, Dodgers and Royals. The three teams came back to win the series. The Yanks and Dodgers have done so by winning four consecutive wins. It's a mo switch. And it was tired for those jugs.
Buehler did not get that win because Jansen ruined the backup on the Bradley circuit. But the right-handed 24-year-old is likely to hang in the minds of the Red Sox thinking of the showdown of Game Seven.
The theory that this series just switched to the Dodgers is based on a second foundation. By the end of the twelfth round, Cora may have lost her mind.
With an excellent chance that her Red Sox eventually win this series, regardless of the outcome of Match 3, Cora decided to play double or nothing, a strategy then unknown to this sport. Cora brought her project Game 4 starter, Eovaldi, to try to take a three-game lead and jugular.
Why? In part, it's because Cora had burned her launcher stick, like Cecil B. DeMille, killing extras in a Roman Coliseum. After going through eight pitchers, Cora had more than his ace Chris Sale and his humble southpaw Drew Pomeranz. So he launched the dice with Eovaldi, who was powerful as a starter, but also on a one-off mission.
Eovaldi was great. He threw six white sleeves before Muncy sank and escaped two small ice jams. But the Red Sox now have a weak confrontation, at least on paper, for the fourth game with, probably, Pomeranz, against the evil veteran Rich Hill. Did Cora accidentally misplace two games in one night? Very careless.
In the 14th inning, Muncy launched a long blast on the home straight. He missed the end of the game by maybe a meter or two. "I had hope," he said, but the experience told him that the ball was false. Then he stoked.
Who thought, who even dreamed, that Muncy would not only have one more fight against Eovaldi, but two more chances. In the 18th inning, "I thought," Where did the game go? Said Muncy, adding that the nine extra rounds had become a blur or pressure. "But there was no deflation, no abandonment. When they had that one [run in the 12th]there was no panic and we got one back.
"In a match that big, playing five rounds is exhausting. When playing 18, both sides must feel it. . . we had have that to give us back. "
At 12:30, in Los Angles, 7 hours and 20 minutes after the first throw, enough time for two long games in 18 or at least three games (maybe four) in 1916, when these two franchises met for the first time. last time. World Series, Muncy connected on a 90mph knife and drove on the center-left field fence. The one who started his night at resisting 100 mph repeatedly, was "down" at just 96.5 mph and was using his knife more.
"He had very good things all night. But he finally threw a cutter that came up on the plate, "said Muncy. And Max crushed him.
Two Red Sox climbed the wall. Neither came back with a bullet.
Some say that Dodger fans are not hardened. Well, they were certainly on an infernally long night when the Dodgers needed them the most for not being fickle and heading to the parking lots. This stadium was three-quarters full when the Dodgers danced in front of the crowd in front of the Muncy crowd.
For a team, it was really the moment of "Let's Go Crazy".
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