LOS ANGELES — Late Monday night, Eric Lauer started getting hungry.

Game 3 of the 2025 World Series had gone on so long that the early innings were starting to feel like they belonged to a different game entirely. Remember when Justin Bieber showed up wearing a Shane Bieber jersey? When George Springer grabbed his side and took himself out of the game? When the Toronto Blue Jays still threw Shohei Ohtani anything in the strike zone?

It was all starting to feel like a distant memory and so was Lauer’s pre-game meal. But while some of his teammates snacked between innings, Lauer stayed away from food. It’s not that he wasn’t hungry — but he was holding the Los Angeles Dodgers scoreless and disinclined to mess with what was working.

“No. I was starving,” he said. “But I wasn’t going to cha

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