TORONTO -- Two days after throwing a complete game on 105 pitches, Yoshinobu Yamamoto pressed himself into duty for a Dodgers team that had exhausted its entire bullpen. The sight of him tossing in the bullpen was nearly as big a spectacle as Game 3 of the World Series itself, in its sixth hour and 18th inning -- but Freddie Freeman ended the instant classic with a walk-off homer before Yamamoto was needed to pitch the 19th.

That game turned Will Klein into an October hero and cemented Freeman’s status as a clutch Fall Classic performer. But Yamamoto’s postseason legend only grew that night, despite ultimately not throwing a pitch in the contest.

The way Freeman tells it, Yamamoto was soft-tossing around 10-15 mph to feel things out. The coaches in the bullpen asked if he could go,

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