A World Series Instant Classic: Freddie Freeman's Walk-Off Homer Ends Game 3 Marathon
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Eno and DVR discuss an epic Game 3 between the Blue Jays and Dodgers which eventually ended with a Freddie Freeman walk-off homer in the 18th inning! They look back at a game that had nearly everything -- including six scoreless innings from two relievers added to the Dodgers for this series -- and consider the fallout with Games 4 and 5 to come prior to the next possible off-day in the series.
Rundown
1:00 What Do You Remember About Max Scherzer & Tyler Glasnow's Roles in Game 3?
5:14 Bo Bichette's Early Baserunning Out on Delayed Strike Call
10:46 Shohei Ohtani Has First Four Extra-Base Hit Game in World Series Since 1905
13:30 Did Aggressive Pinch-Running Choices Burn the Blue Jays in Extra Innings?
19:54 A Wobbly Outing From Roki Sasaki
23:44 Everybody Pitches: Eric Lauer, Edgardo Henriquez and Will Klein Deliver
27:54 Freddie Freeman Strikes in October, Again!
33:54 Does Bo Bichette Play More (Regular DH) if George Springer Is Done for the Series?
38:11 Whose Bullpen Is In Worse Shape for Game 4?
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| 0:00.0 | Berman sends a fly ball to center field. |
| 0:09.7 | Our show's going back before the catch strikes meet back. |
| 0:13.9 | Fannie Freeman has ended it. |
| 0:17.0 | It's a repeat hero with the last word on a game three classic. |
| 0:25.3 | Welcome to rates and barrels. |
| 0:26.8 | It's Tuesday, October 28th. |
| 0:28.8 | Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris on this episode. |
| 0:31.9 | We relive six hours and 39 minutes of World Series action. |
| 0:38.9 | Dodgers Blue Jays game three was an all-timer and instant classic. |
| 0:43.8 | A lot of folks excited about what went down in Chavez Ravine on Monday night. |
| 0:50.6 | Jay's fans not among them, especially since it was very, very late for Jay's fans living on Eastern Time. |
| 0:57.9 | Wow. I mean, what an epic game. We have so many things to pull at from this one. A lot of questions, a lot of things that maybe were borderline calls that didn't quite work out. |
| 1:13.4 | I wanted to start with a simple question for you today, you know, |
| 1:20.3 | what do you remember about Max Scherzer and Tyler Glassnow's roles in game three because they did in fact start this game and pitched in it for a decent amount of time, |
| 1:26.8 | relatively speaking. |
| 1:28.1 | I remember a lot of curveballs from Tyler Glass now. |
| 1:31.3 | First pitch curveballs and then strangely enough for him, he really leaned into the sinker. |
| 1:39.9 | You know, I know there's always this question when you have a strength and it happens to be the same |
| 1:45.6 | strength as the hitter. What do you do as a pitcher? Do you just lean into your strength and just |
| 1:53.0 | throw the foreseen fastball anyway? In this case, it looks like no. Tyler Glassdowne threw |
| 1:57.6 | 13% forcing fastballs. His yearly number is 35%. |
| 2:01.7 | He threw 41% sinkers twice his yearly number. |
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