The Los Angeles Dodgers are on the board.
After dropping the first two games of the 2018 World Series at Fenway Park, the National League champions outlasted the Boston Red Sox for a 3-2 Game 3 win at Dodger Stadium on Friday night behind a walk-off solo home run from Max Muncy in the 18th inning of the longest game in MLB postseason history.
FOX SportsIT'S OVER!!! Max Muncy hits the game-winning homer to end the longest game in World Series history in the 18th inning! https://t.co/MDANs0jNmN
The Red Sox briefly took a 2-1 lead in the top of the 13th inning when Brock Holt scored on an Eduardo Nunez infield single and Scott Alexander error, but Yasiel Puig responded with an infield single (and Ian Kinsler error) that pushed Muncy across home to extend the marathon match:
According to STATS LLC, the seven-hour, 20-minute epic lasted longer than the entirety of the 1939 World Series between the New York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds.