LOS ANGELES — Now what?

After 18 innings, 609 pitches and six hours and 39 minutes of World Series insanity, what kind of state will the teams be in for Game 4?

Game 3, a 6-5 victory for the Los Angeles Dodgers over the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday night, was a flawed, glorious classic, matching the 18-inning Game 3 between the Dodgers and Boston Red Sox in 2018 for the longest in Series history.

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The drama included Clayton Kershaw entering the game in the 12th to escape a two-out, bases-loaded jam in the first extra-inning appearance of his Hall of Fame career. A four-inning star turn from Dodgers reliever Will Klein, who was traded by both Oakland and Seattle in the past 10 months and left off the roster by the Dodgers in their first three playoff rounds. And finally, a walkoff homer by Freddie Freeman that spared the Dodgers from turning to Yoshinobu Yamamoto in relief on one day’s rest coming off a 105-pitch complete game.

The Blue Jays used every one of their position players, the Dodgers every one of their pitchers. Seventeen hours after the game’s conclusion at 11:50 p.m. PT, they will take the field at Dodger Stadium again. And, as Freeman noted after joining Hall of Famer Goose Goslin as the only players with multiple walkoff hits in the World Series — Freeman’s were homers, Goslin’s were singles — “our starting pitcher got on base nine times tonight.”

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