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Shohei Ohtani Sets Dodgers, MLB Records in World Series Game 3

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Los Angeles Dodgers two-way player Shohei Ohtani (17) celebrates scoring in the fifth inning against the Toronto Blue Jays during game three of the 2025 MLB World Series at Dodger Stadium on Monday.
Los Angeles Dodgers two-way player Shohei Ohtani (17) celebrates scoring in the fifth inning against the Toronto Blue Jays during game three of the 2025 MLB World Series at Dodger Stadium on Monday. | Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

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Shohei Ohtani's second home run in Game 3 of the World Series on Monday did more than tie the score against the Toronto Blue Jays.

It lifted Ohtani into the all-time record books — again.

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Ohtani's second home run of the game, against Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Seranthony Dominguez in the seventh inning, was his fourth hit of the game. It was also his eighth home run of the postseason, tying Corey Seager's franchise record from 2020. The major league record is 10, set by Randy Arozarena in 2020.

The Blue Jays didn't give Ohtani anything to hit after that. With the game tied 5-5, Ohtani drew intentional walks in the ninth, 11th, 13th and 15th innings. He drew an unintentional walk in the 17th, becoming the first player in history to reach base nine times in a game.

No player had ever drawn four intentional walks in a postseason game before. No player had ever drawn five walks in a World Series game. Nine times on base tied the major league record.

Ohtani also had two doubles Monday, giving him 12 total bases — another franchise record for a World Series game.

Ohtani's four extra-base hits in a single game matched the World Series record held since 1906 by Frank Isbell of the Chicago White Sox.

Monday marked the third time Ohtani has hit at least two home runs in a game this postseason, something no player on any team had done in Major League Baseball history.

Ohtani was chosen Most Valuable Player of the National League Championship Series after he hit three home runs and pitched six scoreless innings in the clinching Game 4 against the Milwaukee Brewers.

Between that game and Monday's, Ohtani became the first player with at least two postseason games of 12 or more total bases since Babe Ruth.

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Only four players had compiled 12 total bases in a World Series game before Ohtani: Pablo Sandoval (2012), Albert Pujols (2011), Reggie Jackson (1977) and Ruth (1926, 1928).

Despite going a week between games, Ohtani seems no worse for the time off. Neither the game, nor the World Series, is over, but the Dodgers will try to keep it going as long as possible.

Ohtani is now 7-for-7 in his last seven at-bats at Dodger Stadium, with five home runs and two doubles.

Ohtani's latest monster game has delighted the Dodger Stadium crowd as the series shifted back to Los Angeles for Games 3, 4, and 5.

Ohtani's 63 home runs this year — combining the regular season and postseason — are also a single-season franchise record. Last year Ohtani hit a team-record 57 homers (54 in the regular season, three in the postseason).

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J.P. Hoornstra
J.P. HOORNSTRA

J.P. Hoornstra is an On SI Contributor. A veteran of 20 years of sports coverage for daily newspapers in California, J.P. covered MLB, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Los Angeles Angels (occasionally of Anaheim) from 2012-23 for the Southern California News Group. His first book, The 50 Greatest Dodgers Games of All-Time, published in 2015. In 2016, he won an Associated Press Sports Editors award for breaking news coverage. He once recorded a keyboard solo on the same album as two of the original Doors.

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