LOS ANGELES (WTVD) -- The LA Dodgers and Boston Red Sox battled it out in a record-breaking Game 3 for 18 innings lasting seven hours and twenty minutes!The Dodgers beat the Red Sox 3-2.The Red Sox still lead the seven-game series 2-1.Game 4 will be played Saturday night in Los Angeles.<doc-sep>TV/Radio: FOX / ESPN Radio, WEEI. Red Sox vs. Buehler: Kinsler 1-2. Dodgers vs. Porcello: Dozier 9-45, Machado 13-38, Freese 4-16, Kemp 4-6, Taylor 2-6, Turner 0-5, Muncy 0-1. Stat of the Day: The Sox are hitting .363 (33 of 91) with a 1.118 OPS with runners in scoring position in the postseason. Pitching in as a hitter: Games 3, 4 and maybe 5 will be played under National League rules. That means no DH. That might not be so bad tonight. Rick Porcello was 3 for 7 with two doubles and three RBIs this season in interleague games. But since 1975, Red Sox pitchers are 4 for 44 in the World Series with no extra-base hits and two RBIs. The last Sox pitcher to get a hit in the Series was Daisuke Matsuzaka in Game 3 in 2007. Before that you have to go back to Bill Lee in Game 7 of 1975. The only Red Sox pitcher to homer in the World Series was Jose Santiago in Game 1 in 1967 off Hall of Famer Bob Gibson. What to watch for: Buehler has thrown 170 innings this season counting the regular season, postseason and minors. He threw 98 all of last season. He has to be feeling the effects of that. … The Sox are 9-0 when scoring first in the postseason. … There were only a handful of Dodgers fans at Fenway Park for Games 1 and 2. But there are a large number of loyal Red Sox fans in southern California and they could make their presence known at Dodger Stadium. Advertisement World Series wonders: The Sox are 14-2 in the World Series since 2004 and have outscored the Cardinals, Rockies and Dodgers by 50 runs in those games. Advertisement Other notes: Porcello has not pitched since Oct. 17, Game 4 of the ALCS, so he should have plenty in his tank. … The Sox have won six straight and eight of nine. … The Sox are 5-0 on the road in the postseason and have outscored teams, 40-13. … Opposing starters have a 7.47 ERA against the Sox in the playoffs. … Manny Machado has 12 RBIs in 13 playoff games for the Dodgers. … J.D. Martinez has not played the outfield since Sept. 28. He has 13 RBIs in 11 postseason games along with a .967 OPS. Song of the Day: “Life In The Fast Lane” by The Eagles. Peter Abraham can be reached at pabraham@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @PeteAbe.<doc-sep>In that same at-bat, Nunez sent a nubber toward the mound, hustling down the line and diving into first base. It paid off, as the throw got away and Brock Holt came around to score the go-ahead run to make it 2-1 Red Sox. First, came the air, when he tried to avoid catcher Austin Barnes after the ball trickled away. Barnes charged forward to track it down, but Nunez was in his path in the batter’s box, so Barnes upended him and Nunez took a tumble. Red Sox third baseman Eduardo Nunez spent a good chunk of the 13th inning of Game 3 of the World Series in the air, on the ground, and in the stands. Advertisement Nunez stayed on the ground for a bit, but he got up and proceeded to motor to third on a double from Sandy Leon. He was unable to score on the play. In the bottom of the frame, Nunez zoomed into foul ground to track down a pop up. He dove into the stands, à la Derek Jeter (OK, not quite, but it was a gutsy play, nonetheless), and came down with the ball. Eduardo Nunez landed in the stands after catching a foul ball in the 13th inning. Stan Grossfeld/Globe Staff It was a significant play for two reasons – one because of the impressive athleticism after his body had already taken a beating, but two, because it allowed Max Muncy to tag up and go to second. Eduardo Núñez! What a catch going into the stands! pic.twitter.com/qCmYWp0LBy — FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) October 27, 2018 Muncy came around to score, as Ian Kinsler threw the ball away after a sharp grounder from Yasiel Puig. Nunez stayed in the game and reached on another infield single in the 15th. In the bottom of the 16th inning, Nunez tumbled to the ground as drifted across the mound to catch a pop-up in the infield.<doc-sep>
By then, there is no telling how exhausted the pitchers will be. The teams set a record for combined pitchers used in a World Series game: 18, not counting the Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw, who lined out as a pinch-hitter in the 17th inning, just to add to the zaniness of the night. “Regular season, you probably expect a few of those,” said Kershaw, adding that the clubhouse chef had prepared peanut-butter-and-banana sandwiches for the players as the hours dragged on. “You don’t expect a game like that to happen in the World Series. An incredible game, it really was.” There were pratfalls from Boston’s Eduardo Nunez, who did not even play until the 10th inning but managed to fall over in four different places: the batter’s box, after colliding with catcher Austin Barnes in the 13th; the dirt around first base, after sliding in safely moments later; the third-base stands, after catching a foul pop and tumbling there in the bottom of the inning; and the pitcher’s mound, after making an awkward catch in the 16th. There was a spectacular double play by center fielder Cody Bellinger, who caught Nunez’s fly ball in the 10th and uncorked a laser to the plate to cut down Ian Kinsler, who was tagging up from third. Bellinger had been picked off in the ninth by David Price, Boston’s Game 2 starter, who was working in relief. “I was glad I had a chance to redeem myself,” Bellinger said. “I wouldn’t have been able to sleep.” There were home runs before Muncy’s — a solo shot by the Dodgers’ Joc Pederson off Rick Porcello in the third inning, and another by the Red Sox’ Jackie Bradley Jr. off Kenley Jansen that tied the score in the eighth. Jansen relieved the rookie starter Walker Buehler, who dazzled for seven shutout innings. “He’s got tremendous stuff,” Manager Dave Roberts said, “and he lives for moments like this.” Only twice before had a pitcher worked seven scoreless innings in the World Series while striking out seven and allowing two hits or fewer: Don Larsen in his perfect game in 1956 and Roger Clemens in 2000. Buehler joined those Yankees on Friday, stifling a strong lineup whose first two hitters, Mookie Betts and Xander Bogaerts, combined to go 0 for 15.