A historic Game 3 it was, with a familiar Dodgers hero. Freddie Freeman hit a walk-off home run to center field in the bottom of the 18th inning that sent those remaining in Dodgers Stadium into hysterics after a 6-5 win over the Blue Jays in Game 3 of the World Series in a game that poured into Tuesday morning.

Freddie Freeman homered leading off the bottom of the 18th inning, Shohei Ohtani went deep twice in another record-setting performance and the Los Angeles Dodgers outlasted the Toronto Blue Jays 6-5 in Game 3 on Monday night to win a World Series classic.

The Dodgers, after silencing the Milwaukee Brewers, 5-1, in front of a subdued crowd at American Family Field, are putting on one of the most dominant pitching clinics in baseball history.

The World Series has long been a 2-3-2 format, and when a team loses its first two games on the road, a home clincher is impossible. That’s how it happened for the Dodgers in 1955, 1965 and 1981. In all three of those championship runs, they recovered to sweep their home games, then wrapped things up on the road in Game 6 or 7.