![]() ![]() ![]() Rookie right-hander Walker Buehler allowed two hits over seven shutout innings and left with a one-run lead provided by Joc Pederson's third-inning homer off Rick Porcello. "All I know is we're feeling pretty good about ourselves right now," Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts said. ![]() He joined Cookie Lavagetto, whose double in 1947's fourth game ended a no-hit bid by the Yankees' Bill Bevens Jackie Robinson, whose 10th-inning single in 1956's sixth game scored Jim Gilliam and Kirk Gibson, whose two-out, two-run pinch homer off Oakland's Dennis Eckersley won the 1988 opener. Eovaldi, Boston's scheduled Game 4 starter, was starting his seventh inning of relief when Muncy hit an opposite-field drive to left-center for the Dodgers' fourth World Series walkoff hit. Muncy nearly won the game in the 15th inning, pulling a long drive off Nathan Eovaldi that hooked just to the foul side of the right-field pole. "Starting pitchers are used to getting their spikes on, but nothing usually comes to fruition," Kershaw said. 163 career batting average, pinch hit in the 17th inning and lined out. "You want to have fun with it," said Rich Hill, the Dodgers scheduled Game 4 starter before a middle-of-the-night change to TBA to match Boston's probable pitcher.Ĭlayton Kershaw, a three-time NL Cy Young Award winner with a. The Dodgers munched on peanut butter and banana sandwiches provided by a team employee, and hung the bananas to produce fruitful luck - harkening back to the rally banana credited by Enrique Hernandez for helping end a 35-inning scoreless streak three years ago. "Those last nine innings or so just kind of blended together." "You look up and see the 18th inning, and you're like, holy cow, where did the game go?" Muncy said. The longest Stanley Cup final matchup was Edmonton's win over Boston in the 1990 opener, a three-overtime affair requiring an extra 55:13. There have been only two NBA Finals games needing the extra 15 minutes of three overtimes, Boston's victory over Phoenix in 1976 and the Suns' win over Chicago in 1993. Only once has the Super Bowl gone to overtime, with only an extra 11:02 needed for New England's win over Atlanta in 2017. Notably, a Boston team has been involved in the longest title match in all four of the major sports. major team sport DOUBLED the length of a game in its championship. ![]()
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