6 hours and 39 minutes. A little absurd. The 18-inning Monday night game was eventually tied for the longest game in World Series history. As the Dodgers took a 2-1 series lead after a grueling encounter, the question every Dodgers fan had was: Will Shohei Ohtani get enough rest to pitch in Game 4? And now, Dave Roberts has given the answer.

Joining the FOX Sports panel featuring Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, and David Ortiz for a brief minute, Roberts was asked, “Shohei’s good to go tomorrow?” Roberts immediately replied, “Shohei’s good to go. Cramps and all, but he’s going. He’s pitching.”

The Dodgers star was unbelievable against the Jays, hitting a round-tripper in his first at-bat and a homer in the third. Then in the fifth, he hit a run-scoring double off the center-field fence and tied the game in the seventh inning with a homer. Ohtani was intentionally walked in the eighth, eleventh, and fifteenth innings. Then he walked on four pitches in the seventeenth inning.

This hammering was predicted by Chris Bassitt, who had previously warned the Blue Jays fans about targeting Ohtani, saying, “Don’t poke the bear.” Yet, they did exactly that during Games 1 and 2 at the Rogers Center, with their chants “we don’t need you” pumping him up for Monday night.

Shohei Ohtani also broke another World Series record, becoming the first player to reach base 9 times. He also joined an incredibly exclusive club by ripping four extra-base hits in a single game. It’s a feat only Frank Isbell of the 1906 Chicago White Sox had pulled off more than a century ago.

All of that sits in the background for Ohtani, though. His focus is already locked on Game 4. “What matters the most is we flip the page and play the next game. I want to go to sleep as soon as possible so I can get ready,” He said after the tiring 18-inning stretch.

Shohei Ohtani and Co.’s heroics in Game 3 of the World Series

Whenever a best-of-seven postseason series is tied 1-1, Game 3 usually becomes the turning point. Speaking historically, the team that takes Game 3 has gone on to win the series 70 out of 101 times, nearly 70% hit rate.

Narrow it down to the current 2-3-2 format, and when the home team wins Game 3 after a 1-1 split, they’ve ended up taking the series in 29 of 48 tries. That’s a pretty strong advantage for the folks playing in their own ballpark.

Game 3 wasn’t just the Ohtani show. Chaos ruled the basepaths, too, with six runners getting thrown out. Freddie Freeman was cut down at the plate in the second inning thanks to a laser from Addison Barger in right. Later, in the 10th, Toronto pinch-runner Davis Schneider tried to score but got erased by a flawless relay: Teoscar Hernández to Tommy Edman to Will Smith.

Game 3 even delivered one of the strangest pickoffs you’ll ever see. Daulton Varsho and Bo Bichette both misread home-plate umpire Mark Wegner’s delayed strike call on a 3-1 pitch. Bichette thought he had a walk and casually started toward second… only to get picked off at first by Tyler Glasnow. It was like confusion turned into an easy out for the Dodgers.