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As bullpens emptied and the Dodgers<\/a> and Blue Jays<\/a> played into the night, Toronto second baseman Isiah Kiner-Falefa<\/a> had a jarring thought.<\/p>\n “There was a point where I was, like, we might see two position players in the World Series<\/a> going back and forth,” he said.<\/p>\n A day after the Dodgers won 6-5 on Freddie Freeman’s<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n 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 ended by the 13th. In the six seasons with the ghost runner, the longest was the Dodgers’ 16-inning win over San Diego on Aug. 25, 2021.<\/p>\n “Baseball in its truest form and part of winning a seven-game series is if there are games like that, then to have to go through the battle of attrition with pitching,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.<\/p>\n Will Klein<\/a>, the Series-record 10th pitcher for Los Angeles, doubled his previous career highs with four innings and 72 pitches. Yoshinobu Yamamoto<\/a> had warmed up and was set to enter in the 19th, two days after throwing 105 pitches to win Game 2 in his second consecutive complete game.<\/p>\n “If Yamamoto couldn\u2019t have taken the ball in the 19th, it was probably going to be Miguel Rojas<\/a>. So that\u2019s kind of where we were at,” Roberts said in a reference to a second baseman who made four mop-up pitching appearances during the season.<\/p>\n Little entered in the 17th for the Blue Jays and Shane Bieber<\/a>, their scheduled starter for Game 4 on Tuesday, was in the bullpen and would have followed him to the mound. Rookie Trey Yesavage, scheduled for Wednesday’s Game 5, would have been the last pitcher in before a position player.<\/p>\n Blue Jays manager John Schneider wasn’t sure he would favor extending the ghost runner to the postseason.<\/p>\n “I\u2019m kind of a traditionalist when it comes to baseball,” he said. “It\u2019s kind of unique because that\u2019s how you play for 162 and then that goes away. But with that, I think you got to structure your roster accordingly to try to handle some of those situations.”<\/p>\n Reporting by The Associated Press.<\/i><\/p>\n Want great stories delivered right to your inbox?\u00a0<\/i>Create or log in to your FOX Sports account<\/u><\/i><\/a>, and follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily!<\/i><\/p>\n <\/div>\n 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. 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