When you step into the shadowed bowl of Dodger Stadium on a crisp Los Angeles night, you expect drama in October — but not an odyssey. Not a nearly seven-hour marathon that tests the limits of endurance and sanity simultaneously.

Yet that’s exactly what unfolded on Monday in Game 3 of this year’s World Series, and by the time the sky turned pale with dawn, two clubs were left marveling at the reverence of their souls.

Freddie Freeman hit a walk-off homer in the bottom of the 18th inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers won a war of attrition over the Toronto Blue Jays to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven Fall Classic.

"That was one of the greatest World Series games of all time," said an exhausted and emotional Dodgers manager Dave Roberts after the win. "There's a lot of heroes to

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