World Series Game 4 preview: Do Dodgers or Blue Jays have an edge after 18-inning Game 3?
Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Jason Fitz and Claudia Bellofatto discuss whether the Los Angeles Dodgers or Toronto Blue Jays have an edge heading into World Series Game 4. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV .
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The next game is tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern, and Claudia mentioned it earlier.
All these guys got to do a quick wraparound.
Also, the game after that is Wednesday night.
Like we have back to back to back, like there is no rest allocated in this thing.
So just a reminder to everybody, an almost seven-hour game last night that was essentially, it went 18 innings.
It was a second baseball game, right?
Like we saw game 3 and 4 basically last night.
Now they got a turn around and do it again tonight, and they got to turn around and do it again tomorrow.
I am concerned about the ability, especially when you talk about the, the relievers and the issues that that has been for the Dodgers at times.
I wonder how this particularly long game, we'll talk a lot about how momentum will carry over and oh my God, the, the lift you get from winning that game.
But man, a lot of arms were used, that a lot of arms are gonna be fried.
I'm genuinely curious to see how the pitching looks for the rest of the way.
There's gonna be a lot of runs here, but I think that's what we can just agree on.
There's gonna be a lot of runs.
We saw Yamamoto who just pitched a complete game two days before he was warming up.
Shane Bieber, who's starting game 4 was starting to get loose, neither of them pitched, but that goes to show you just how many arms they did not have.
The concern for me is I think Otani's gonna be OK.
The Dodgers' bullpen in general was a bit of a concern heading into this series, but now that's even because everybody's arm has been used.
The winner of game 3 in a best of seven when it's tied at 1-1 has gone on to win that series 70% of the time.
I find it very difficult to believe that Toronto, after what happened last night, can go on and win 3 of the next 4.
I just do, and that's not something crazy to say.
The Dodgers remain a big favorite.
They were a big favorite heading into this.
It goes back to the depth though.
I just don't know if Toronto, especially if they don't have Springer, can really pull through.
In general, even if you were the most stacked team like the Dodgers or the deepest team in the world, having to play back to back after basically playing two games in a row is gonna be extremely difficult, Fitzy.
