How crazy, how remarkably epic, was Game 3 of the World Series?

It was this crazy: Shohei Ohtani, the greatest baseball player in the world, had one of the greatest World Series games of all time, and it ended up feeling like a side note in a game that was really two games in one.

Ohtani, the otherworldly Japanese superstar, went full alien on Monday night, belting two doubles and two home runs, the second of them tying the game at 5-5 in the seventh inning. It was operatic, and then it became unrelenting.

An entire, additional game unfolded. That one evolved into a chess match that was also somehow a war of attrition, and it ended with a home run off the bat of Freddie Freeman, a solo shot in the bottom of the 18th inning that finally put to bed a game that last almost seven hours. It

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