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Los Angeles Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani (17) celebrates after hitting a home run during the seventh inning against the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 3 of the World Series at Dodger Stadium.

I suppose there must be more devastating ways to lose a World Series game than to hand it over to your bullpen goat after 16 innings so that he can give up the walkoff home run, but I can’t think of any.

It’s hard to pity any professional athlete – it is their function to provide us with the agony as well the ecstasy – but it is hard not to feel a little for Jays reliever Brendon Little.

Little came in after 16 innings on Monday night, and you just know Jays manager John Schneider would have put in one of those golden retrievers that fetch bats instead if that had been an option. But

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