Then, Freeman stepped to the plate, and as he has done time and again, he delivered. A walk-off single to left field, which tipped off the glove of the Twins' Harrison Bader, gave the Dodgers an enrapturing 4-3 victory.

In a matchup in which both starting pitchers proved too strong to handle, the two bullpens played a game of chicken, and the Dodgers, who came within one strike of a rather deflating loss, instead beat the Twins in walk-off fashion. Freddie Freeman was the hero with a two-run single in the ninth to seal this 4-3 win.

The third baseman’s grounder was picked up by reliever Edgardo Hernandez, who threw the ball into right field. As it rolled all the way to the outfield wall, all three runners came around to score in the seventh inning of the Twins’ 10-7 win over the Dodgers on Thursday night at Dodger Stadium.