Not Really A Baseball Fan, But This Was Special

[katsteve2012]

I'm not a committed baseball fan, however, my brother in law(who is) bought tickets in advance for us to attend all of the Series games scheduled at Dodger Stadium.

I didn't expect that we'd be here through 18 innings, until nearly midnight, and I wanted to leave and go home.

Glad I didn't.

It was a long evening and a historical experience that was well worth it to see first hand.

I was at the "Thrilla In Manila" between Ali and Frazier back in 1975 in this same month, and I would have to say that watching this in real time was equally amazing.

https://www.mlb.com/news/dodgers-win-world-series-game-3-2025

 

[bill718]

I'm not a committed baseball fan, however, my brother in law(who is) bought tickets in advance for us to attend all of the Series games scheduled at Dodger Stadium.

I didn't expect that we'd be here through 18 innings, until nearly midnight, and I wanted to leave and go home.

Glad I didn't.

It was a long evening and a historical experience that was well worth it to see first hand.

I was at the "Thrilla In Manila" between Ali and Frazier back in 1975 in this same month, and I would have to say that watching this in real time was equally amazing.

https://www.mlb.com/news/dodgers-win-world-series-game-3-2025

I'm sincerely glad this was special for you and hope your favorite team wins. What's not so special is a Mariner team that wins the first 2 games of a series, then goes on to lose. The statical chances - - 11%. Maybe the Mariner fans should go to the games with bags over their heads. GO LA!!

 

[Harry Dresden]

I'm sincerely glad this was special for you and hope your favorite team wins. What's not so special is a Mariner team that wins the first 2 games of a series, then goes on to lose. The statical chances - - 11%. Maybe the Mariner fans should go to the games with bags over their heads. GO LA!!

when you run into a better team team thats what happens.....the Mariners did just that.....

 

[22lcidw]

As a fan everyone has their views and opinions. In extra-inning games, to me an extra couple innings or so is the max to say what is mythical. What we really get is batters getting tight when it goes to two games length.

 

[katsteve2012]

I'm sincerely glad this was special for you and hope your favorite team wins. What's not so special is a Mariner team that wins the first 2 games of a series, then goes on to lose. The statical chances - - 11%. Maybe the Mariner fans should go to the games with bags over their heads. GO LA!!

As a kid, Dodger Stadium was a place that I had great memories of, I saw Don Drysdale, and Sandy Koufax pitch there and saw other all time greats from other teams play there as well, so it was fun to spend an evening there many years later and see a game that will be a part of baseball history.
I'm pulling for L.A. to repeat

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I'm not a committed baseball fan, however, my brother in law(who is) bought tickets in advance for us to attend all of the Series games scheduled at Dodger Stadium.

I didn't expect that we'd be here through 18 innings, until nearly midnight, and I wanted to leave and go home.

Glad I didn't.

It was a long evening and a historical experience that was well worth it to see first hand.

I was at the "Thrilla In Manila" between Ali and Frazier back in 1975 in this same month, and I would have to say that watching this in real time was equally amazing.

https://www.mlb.com/news/dodgers-win-world-series-game-3-2025

Baseball should only have 2 extra innings then do a home run derby to decide the winner

 

[katsteve2012]

Baseball should only have 2 extra innings then do a home run derby to decide the winner

By the time the clock struck 10 p.m., I was having a very similar thought

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Ohtani went 4-for-4 and reached base nine times, including four intentional walks.

 

[odanny]

I went to bed in the 14th inning and watched the rest of the game this morning, tonights game will be interesting, they are going to want Bieber to go deep as their relievers all pitched last night. Toronto could have gone ahead when they had the bases loaded and two outs but the batter struck out on ball four.

Also, the home plate umpire made a lot of bad calls last night.

 

[MarathonMike]

I'm not a committed baseball fan, however, my brother in law(who is) bought tickets in advance for us to attend all of the Series games scheduled at Dodger Stadium.

I didn't expect that we'd be here through 18 innings, until nearly midnight, and I wanted to leave and go home.

Glad I didn't.

It was a long evening and a historical experience that was well worth it to see first hand.

I was at the "Thrilla In Manila" between Ali and Frazier back in 1975 in this same month, and I would have to say that watching this in real time was equally amazing.

https://www.mlb.com/news/dodgers-win-world-series-game-3-2025

Very cool! You witnessed not only a historic game, but more all- time records set by the most gifted player in MLB history Ohtani. He's not the GOAT yet but 3 or 4 more seasons and he will be.

 

[Rocko]

Glad you got to go to the game. It was a classic.

 

[Cassandro]

Also, the home plate umpire made a lot of bad calls last night.

He stole the game from the Bluejays with his late-call third strike early in the game. The pitch was way out of the strike zone, and the batter was already walking to first before that call. What should have been a walk turned into a double play, with the first base runner being picked off as he was walking to second base.

This turned what should have been two runners on base with no outs into no runners and two outs. This probably deprived the Bluejays of at least one run, which would have been enough to win the game.

Is anyone else sick of incompetent umpires making bad calls? With modern AI, we already know which pitches are balls and strikes. Why should we let them continue to make inaccurate guesses that decide games?

 

[IM2]

I'm not a committed baseball fan, however, my brother in law(who is) bought tickets in advance for us to attend all of the Series games scheduled at Dodger Stadium.

I didn't expect that we'd be here through 18 innings, until nearly midnight, and I wanted to leave and go home.

Glad I didn't.

It was a long evening and a historical experience that was well worth it to see first hand.

I was at the "Thrilla In Manila" between Ali and Frazier back in 1975 in this same month, and I would have to say that watching this in real time was equally amazing.

https://www.mlb.com/news/dodgers-win-world-series-game-3-2025

That's awesome! You got to see perhaps the greatest World Series game of all time live. I watched some of it on TV because the Chiefs were playing at the same time. An incredible game. Ohtani is the greatest baseball player of all time. I hve never seen anyone like this. Willie Mays and Barry Bonds didn't even do the things this guy does. He probably won't hit as many home runs, but my goodness, 9 times up, 9 times on base, 2 home runs, and I think he'll be pitching today.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Baseball should only have 2 extra innings then do a home run derby to decide the winner

how many homers do you have to hit to win?...

 

[odanny]

Is anyone else sick of incompetent umpires making bad calls? With modern AI, we already know which pitches are balls and strikes. Why should we let them continue to make inaccurate guesses that decide games?

It's really been obvious this year, next year you have a "challenge rule" on called balls and strikes, but only 2 per game (I think).

It's stupid to have a human making these judgment calls, and as last night proves, they are often times wrong. Baseball needs to fix this for good, and they can, but........tradition.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

how many homers do you have to hit to win?...

Shot for shots
First team to 5 wins
If it’s tied 5-5, next goal wins

 

[katsteve2012]

That's awesome! You got to see perhaps the greatest World Series game of all time live. I watched some of it on TV because the Chiefs were playing at the same time. An incredible game. Ohtani is the greatest baseball player of all time. I hve never seen anyone like this. Willie Mays and Barry Bonds didn't even do the things this guy does. He probably won't hit as many home runs, but my goodness, 9 times up, 9 times on base, 2 home runs, and I think he'll be pitching today.

Ohtani is definitely one of the best I've ever seen. I didn't think that I would be up to going back again today and dealing with the traffic and the crowd, but it will be worth it, so I'll be there.

 

[katsteve2012]

Very cool! You witnessed not only a historic game, but more all- time records set by the most gifted player in MLB history Ohtani. He's not the GOAT yet but 3 or 4 more seasons and he will be.

I agree. He is definitely a rare talent!

 

[Cassandro]

tradition.

=tardition.

 

[MarathonMike]

I agree. He is definitely a rare talent!

The only reason he isn't the GOAT right now is not enough years in the league yet.