Blue Jays lose ultimate heartbreaker in 18 inning World Series marathon

The LA Dodgers are now ahead 2-1 in the 2025 World Series. It took 18 innings before Freddie Freeman finally walked off the Toronto Blue Jays in the 18th inning with a solo home run off Brendon Little in Game 3.

It's the longest postseason game the Blue Jays have ever played and it's ties the MLB record for the longest postseason game ever played, matching the Red Sox and Dodgers 18 inning game that took place in 2018.

Blue Jays lose ultimate heartbreaker in 18 inning World Series marathon

There's a bit of irony in the fact that it's Freeman, who represents Canada on the international stage, sends Canadians everywhere into bitter disappointment in the wee hours of the morning. It was 4:20 in the morning in St. John's, Newfoundland, 2:50 a.m. in Toronto, 1:50 in the morning in Winnipeg and almost midnight in Vancouver.

From coast-to-coast-to-coast the collective hearts of Canada simultaneously broke as Freeman's ball went over the wall in dead centre field. It's the second straight World Series in which Freeman has had a walk off home run, hitting a game winning grand slam in Game 1 against the Yankees in last years Fall Classic.

It took six hours and 39 minutes to play. 19 pitchers were used, 609 pitches were thrown and 153 batters came to the plate. It was a game the Blue Jays were, at one point, eight outs away from winning when Shohei Ohtani hit a solo home run with one out in the seventh to tie the game 5-5. Nobody scored over the next 10 and a half innings, until Freeman sent everyone to the showers.

The home run came off Little, who was the last reliever available for the Blue Jays and he hadn't been used since he gave up a game tying home run to Cal Raleigh in Game 5 of the ALCS. Little pitched a very well in his first inning of work - in the 17th frame. He got the first two batters out, before an Alex Call single. He then walked Ohtani, unintentionally, and then got Mookie Betts to pop out to end the inning.

The Blue Jays had a ton of chances and if they go on to lose the series, this will likely be the game they regret losing the most as they left 19 men on base and were just 2-for12 with runners in scoring position. They also made several base running gaffes in the earlier stages of the game that, in hindsight, played a huge factor in the outcome of the game going as long as it did.

All they can do now is hope that they haven't run out of steam and can regroup, because they now have an uphill battle as they look to even the series in Game 4, which begins in just a few hours.