LOS ANGELES -- This was always going to be a World Series for Shohei Ohtani and Freddie Freeman, for Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Alejandro Kirk. And through three games, the series has largely followed that script.

But here’s the thing about the Fall Classic, baseball played on its biggest stage:

It can be Will Klein ’s World Series, too.

If you didn’t know much about Klein before Monday night -- before the 25-year-old right-hander pitched four brilliant relief innings in the Dodgers’ 6-5, 18-inning victory -- you probably weren’t alone. Klein was not on Los Angeles’ postseason roster in any of the first three rounds. He pitched all of 15 1/3 innings during the regular season.

On Monday, in the most dramatic of circumstances, Klein pitched one scoreless inning after another -- with

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