"We stayed up as a nation through 399 minutes of magnificent, tortuous, agonizing, and weirdly theoretical baseball (except, of course, for you contemptible candypants weenies who "needed your sleep" or whatever other weak-tea excuse you used to justify your sloth), and we were this close to Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts having to make the most agonizing choice in managerial history: Whether to bring in Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the pitcher who just threw a complete game 48 hours earlier, for the 19th inning that never happened."
"It would have been a dangerous, valorous, stupid, and entirely noble move made possible only because Yamamoto himself volunteered to do so. It was a total hero play by the only person who could have made it given the context. It would have been the event of not only this baseball season but this calendar year, even if he'd been battered."
Game 3 of the 2025 World Series ended when Freddie Freeman hit the 609th pitch into deep center, producing a walk-off home run that gave the Dodgers a 6-5 victory. The contest lasted 399 minutes and featured marathon play, near-miss defensive plays, and dramatic managerial dilemmas. Yoshinobu Yamamoto had thrown a complete game 48 hours earlier and volunteered to return, creating a potentially historic and risky option for Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts. Brendon Little's thigh-high sinker produced Freeman's blow, and Daulton Varsho nearly leapt to stop the ball. Managers now face pitching-staff challenges heading into Game 4.
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