I got to ride to hot hand, and that is Shohei Ohtani, who has five home runs in his last two home playoff games. He has eight home runs in 13 playoff games, giving the Dodgers 20 homers for the playoffs, which is four fewer than the Blue Jays, who lead baseball. This game's going to get over with the help of Shane Bieber and the Blue Jays tired bullpen. Blue Jays pitching has a 4.23 ERA in the postseason and has allowed an MLB-high 112 hits and an MLB-high 25 home runs. I think this game gets over.

After last night's 18-inning 6-5 Dodger win, you have to wonder if this series is going to make it back to Toronto for Games 6 and 7. The Blue Jays have a losing record on the road (43-44) while the Dodgers have dominated at home all year at 58-30. The Blue Jays had victory within their grasp last night, and the bullpen let it slip away three times. Tonight, it's Shane Bieber, whom the Blue Jays have won three of his last four starts, but let's be clear, this is not the same Bieber from Cleveland. Shohei Ohtani has won his last two starts, and his last start was his best of all, pitching six innings, allowing only two hits, no runs, and 10 strikeouts.

I really was hoping for a -1 option this time -- it's what I will play. I think last night's utterly crazy game showed why I don't like -1.5, especially when we don't have ghost runner nonsense in the playoffs. I don't believe there's any shot that career playoff superstar George Springer plays tonight for the Jays after leaving last night injured. And Bo Bichette can barely move. Can we even doubt Shohei Ohtani at all as he returns to the mound? Jays counterpart Shane Bieber has been quite average at best in these playoffs. Both bullpens are wrecked after 18 innings.

Well the under worked for the second game on Monday night...except it was part of the first game that happened to go 18 innings. The respective offenses looked like they would play all night before scoring in extra innings, but still, it only takes a big inning or two from either sides to get the score above 8. Toronto has lacked consistency at the plate but does have nine and four-run innings across the first three games, while the Dodgers are scoring 5 runs per game in the Series. After both pitching staffs were depleted on Monday night, we're not sure about either bullpen tonight, and Toronto's Shane Bieber did labor in Game 7 of the ALCS vs. Seattle.