LOS ANGELES (AP) — As bullpens emptied and the Dodgers and Blue Jays played into the night, Toronto second baseman Isiah Kiner-Falefa had a jarring thought.

“There was a point where I was, like, we might see two position players in the World Series going back and forth,” he said.

A day after the Dodgers won 6-5 on Freddie Freeman’s 18th-inning home run off Brendon Little to take a two games to one lead in the best-of-seven matchup, both managers said they were getting close to having to send a position player to the mound in a game of utmost importance.

Yet, neither was immediately in favor of adopting the automatic runner rule used in the regular season since 2020, in which each team starts every extra inning with a runner at second base. Among 209 extra-inning games this season, all

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