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World Series Game 3 turning points of an incredible finish

By Bill Felber

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 27: Dodgers Max Muncy hits a walk off home run in the 18th inning. Los Angeles Dodgers hosted the Boston Red Sox in Game 3 of the World Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Oct. 27, 2018. (Photo by Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 27: Dodgers Max Muncy hits a walk off home run in the 18th inning. Los Angeles Dodgers hosted the Boston Red Sox in Game 3 of the World Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on Oct. 27, 2018. (Photo by Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) /
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LOS ANGELES, CA – OCTOBER 26: Cody Belllinger #35 of the Los Angeles Dodgers attempts to steal second base and gets caught in a run down during the ninth inning of Game 3 of the 2018 World Series against the Boston Red Sox at Dodger Stadium on Friday, October 26, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rob Leiter/MLB Photos via Getty Images) /

Baserunning Adventures

For a pair of championship teams, some of the baserunning in Friday’s game was curious.

Jackie Bradley singled to lead off the third inning but then tried to steal second while Dodger starter Walked Buehler stood on the mound with the ball. Bradley was out by several feet.

In the bottom of the ninth, with the score tied at 1-each, Cody Bellinger repeated Bradley’s misadventure. David Price picked him off, resulting in a rundown that erased Bellinger.

In the 10th, Ian Kinsler ran for J.D. Martinez, who had walked. Kinsler nearly completed the baserunner’s triple play of infamy. He was almost picked off first, he overslid third and barely beat Justin Turner’s tag, then he was thrown out at home by Bellinger on a baby fly ball to short center.

Eduardo Nunez led off the 15th with a single. Two innings earlier as he stood in the batter’s box, Nunez had been undercut by catcher Austin Barnes, sustaining what appeared to be a minor sprained ankle. It slowed him enough that inning that it prevented him from scoring on Sandy Leon’s two-base hit; instead he was stranded at third. In the 15th, the still-hobbling Nunez took second on a walk, but was thrown out at third on Christian Vazquez’s bunt attempt. Had he scored in the 13th or 15th, Boston would have won.

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