Dodgers 'emotionally spent', Blue Jays devastated after 18-inning marathon World Series game

VIDEO SHOWS: SOUNDBITES FROM LOS ANGELES DODGERS' MANAGER DAVE ROBERTS,  FREDDIE FREEMAN, WILL KLEIN, AND TORONTO BLUE JAYS' MANAGER JOHN SCHNEIDER AFTER GAME THREE OF WORLD SERIES RESENDING WITH COMPLETE SHOTLIST SHOWS: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (OCTOBER 27, 2025) (MLB – Editorial use only. No monetisation) 1. (SOUNDBITE)(English) DODGERS MANAGER DAVE ROBERTS AFTER BEING ASKED ON THE EMOTIONS THEY WENT THROUGH PLAYING IN PROBABLY ONE OF THE GREATEST WORLD SERIES GAMES EVER, SAYING:   "Yeah, it's one of the greatest World Series games of all time. Emotional. I'm spent emotionally. We got a ball game later tonight, which is crazy. Yeah, there's just a lot of heroes tonight. Obviously, Freddie put the exclamation mark on the game, but you see what Will Klein did, you know, saw what Edgardo (Henriquez), (Justin) Wrobleski. Clayton (Kershaw) comes in. He was up for three innings and comes in and gets a huge out for us. Just across the board everyone just had huge nights. Big nights, just kept kind of fighting, kept fighting. Those guys over there, they gave it everything they had. Unfortunately, somebody's got win that game and fortunately for the Dodgers we got Freddie Freeman on our team and, yeah, I'm just so proud of this group of men." DODGERS FREDDIE FREEMAN, WHO HIT THE WINNING RUN, SPEAKING AT POSTGAME PRESS CONFERENCE 2. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DODGERS FREDDIE FREEMAN AFTER BEING ASKED how exhausted he was on the 18th inning, saying: “I mean, to be honest, I wasn't actually that tired. When you have your bullpen doing what they were doing, it just keeps firing you up over and over and over again. If you're tired in a World Series game, that's kind of — I don't think anybody's tired after that. But it's just when you're going through all that, 0 after 0, I was just trying to get on base against a tough lefty, sinker baller with a hard curveball just trying to get on, but got to a 3-2 count and was able to put a good swing on it. My swings were getting better as the game was going on. I thought I had a couple hits in, I don't know, 21 innings ago (laughing). It just felt like my swing was getting better and better and, thankfully, I was able to get one over. But I don't think we're physically tired. I think you're just mentally tired because you're in it every pitch, and every pitch means something in the World Series and in the playoffs. So I think we're all emotionally and mentally drained.” 3. WHITE FLASH 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DODGERS FREDDIE FREEMAN WHEN ASKED ABOUT  SHOHEI OHTANI REACHING BASE NINE TIMES, AND THEN TO BE THE STARTER FOR GAME FOUR ON TUESDAY, SAYING “Yeah, I think — didn't he give a quote that he said he was feeling better at the plate before the game? I think he did. He definitely was. He's a unicorn. There's no more adjectives you can describe Shohei. It's 4-4, five walks, he finally got to pitch, pitched two in his last at-bat, and he still had the patience to not be trying to do too much and get on base. He's just incredible. We've been talking about him since he got here in 2018. We're still running out of words to describe a once-in-a-ten-generational player.” DODGERS PITCHER WILL KLEIN SPEAKING AT POSTGAME PRESS CONFERENCE 5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) WILL KLEIN WHEN ASKED ABOUT SURPASSING HIS CAREEER-HIGH 36 PITCHES BY PITCHING 72 TONIGHT, SAYING:  “I don't think that's set in yet. Just pure adrenaline. Just I have that thought in my mind that we weren't going to lose that game. So each time I went out and I felt my legs were tired I'm like, well, who cares. Like no one else is going to care that my legs are tired right now. The hitter doesn't care, so why should I. And just finding it in me to throw one more pitch, and then throw another one after that. And then sitting down and getting back up, the same thought going back out there for the next one. Like putting up a 0, we're not losing this game. So I was, that's kind of what got me through it. And then, yeah, Freddie.” 6. WHITE FLASH 7. (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) WILL KLEIN WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE FREDDIE CELEBRATION, AND TEAMMATES CIRCLING AROUND HIM AND CELEBRATING IN A HUDDLE, SAYING: “That was so cool. I never dreamed that anything like this would happen. So just having the guys like Kersh, Freddie, Shohei, Mookie (Betts), all those guys like kind of celebrating me for a second there was just insane. I don't think I could have dreamt a dream that good. So that was, yeah, that was crazy.” BLUE JAYS MANAGER JOHN SCHNEIDER SPEAKING AT POSTGAME PRESS CONFERENCE 8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BLUE JAYS MANAGER JOHN SCHNEIDER, AFTER BEING ASKED HOW BIG IS THE CHALLENGE TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS GAME, YOU DON'T LOSE THIS GAME TWICE, SAYING: "Not at all. I mean, not at all. This group is going to be ready to play tomorrow. Longest game in World Series history, whatever it is, tied for it. I mean, these guys are enjoying it. They were in the right mindset and the right head space the entire time. It sucks that it's late right now, we got to come back and do it again tomorrow, but these guys are going to be more than ready. The Dodgers didn't win the World Series today, they won a game. These guys are going to be ready to go tomorrow." STORY: Freddie Freeman hit a game-ending home run in the 18th inning, Shohei Ohtani hit two homers and the Los Angeles Dodgers pulled off a 6-5 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday (October 27) in Game Three of the World Series. Teoscar Hernandez also hit a home run, while Ohtani added two doubles and reached base a postseason record nine times with five walks (four intentional) as the Dodgers pulled in front 2-1 in the best-of-seven series after losing Game One at Toronto. Dodgers' manager Dave Roberts and Freeman, who hit the winning run, pitcher Will Klein, who surpassed his career-best 36 pitches with 72 on Monday night, and Blue Jays manager John Schneider reflected on the marathon game. The 18-inning game matched the longest in World Series history, also at Los Angeles in 2018 against the Boston Red Sox. Monday's contest lasted six hours, 39 minutes, the second longest World Series game by time. Game Four is on Tuesday at Los Angeles, with Ohtani opposing Toronto right-hander Shane Bieber. Freeman's leadoff home run in the 18th came against left-hander Brendon Little (0-2) and made a winner of Los Angeles right-hander Will Klein (1-0), who gave up one hit with five strikeouts over four scoreless innings. Ohtani hit home runs in the third and seventh innings and has five home runs over his last two home playoff games. Seldom used right-handers Edgardo Henriquez and Klein combined to pitch six scoreless innings as Los Angeles used a World Series-record 10 pitchers, including left-hander Clayton Kershaw for one out to escape a bases-loaded jam in the 12th. Alejandro Kirk hit a home run for the Blue Jays, who have lost consecutive games after scoring 11 runs in their Game One victory at home. Toronto used nine pitchers with left-hander Eric Lauer pitching 4 2/3 scoreless innings in relief. The Dodgers took a 1-0 lead in the second on Hernandez's home run, his fifth of the postseason. Ohtani gave the Dodgers a 2-0 lead with a home run down the right field line in the third. The Blue Jays took the lead with a four-run fourth that included a three-run home run from Kirk and a sacrifice fly from Andres Gimenez for a 4-2 advantage. The Dodgers got even at 4-4 in the fifth on a one-out RBI double from Ohtani and a two-out RBI single just inside of first base by Freeman. After Toronto's George Springer departed with an injury to lead off the seventh, the Blue Jays pushed ahead 5-4 in the inning on a two-out single from Guerrero off right-hander Blake Treinen and an RBI single from Bichette to score Guerrero from first base. Ohtani's fifth home run in his last two playoff games at Los Angeles, this one off right-hander Seranthony Dominguez, tied the score 5-5 in the seventh. It was Ohtani's eighth of the postseason and t…

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