These are the games that live on forever. These are the home runs that never come down. These are the memories that don’t ever fade.

Before the baseball extravaganza kicked off, country singer Brad Paisley took to the field for the national anthem. It was truly lovely. It was also an omen of what was to follow. You see, heading into Monday night's game, Paisley had performed the anthem four times at the Fall Classic. Three of them went to extra innings.

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Eighteen innings. Six hours and 39 minutes. We were treated to bonus baseball and then some in World Series Game 3. Seven years after the Dodgers and Red Sox set a World Series record with an 18-inning game in Game 3 at Dodger Stadium,

Freddie Freeman hit a walk-off home run in the 18th inning of Game 3, but that was only the final step of a remarkable baseball odyssey.

Yep, Paisley was the anthem singer that night, too. MLB.com's Anthony Castrovince shared this stat on X overnight, adding that Paisley had also sung before an 11-inning World Series Game 2 in 2017 and a 10-inning World Series Game 1 in 2022.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani homered twice and tied a 119-year-old major league record with four extra-base hits in Game 3 of the World Series on Monday night, putting on yet another historic postseason show at Dodger Stadium.