Down to their final out in the ninth, the man named Big Christmas provided a miracle with a game-tying pinch-hit two-run HR, setting the stage for David Fry’s walk-off blast in the 10th and a brand-new series.
This is not the first time that players from Japan have taken center stage in October, but the buzz surrounding Shohei Ohtani and others feels unprecedented.
This Cleveland club is not a collection of superstars, but what we saw in the Guardians’ Game 3 victory is what this team is – a collection of gamers who feed off each other, pick each other up and come through when it counts.
The Dodgers have walked 31 times in the NLCS, a record for any four-game stretch in the postseason. And their four straight games with seven-plus walks is also a record.
Cleveland fans will certainly want to hear how the radio broadcasters reacted to the huge Game 3 homers by Jhonkensy Noel and David Fry, and so should almost everyone else (though maybe not Yankees fans).
Billy Bean Terrace will feature a garden and tree that will bloom every spring, as well as a plaque bearing lines from a poem in his honor, written by Bean’s parents.
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