How’s everyone feeling today? Are you good and rested? Have you wrapped your head around all that happened last night? Are you planning a late-night pot of coffee just in case this game gets ideas of grandeur?
Welcome to our World Series Game 4 live coverage, where it’s going to take a while for all of us to get over what happened last night.
Eighteen innings is a lot of baseball. Shohei Ohtani was incredible. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had some amazing moments. Was that the last we’ll ever see Max Scherzer and Clayton Kershaw? Did you see Yoshinobu Yamamoto warming up at the end? Let’s hope George Springer is OK. Someone better get started on the Will Klein statue.
But in the end, though it lasted the length of two games, Game 3 counted as only one, and there are still at least two more to play. The Dodgers have taken control of the series and they have … checks notes … Ohtani starting tonight’s Game 4 while the Blue Jays turn to former Cy Young winner Shane Bieber.
The Athletic’s live coverage will be here all night — however long it takes — with our usual team of reporters on the ground in LA, plus our usual contribution from former players and umpires providing insight throughout.
Get comfortable. There’s no telling how long we’ll be here.