LOS ANGELES — The ball dropped after midnight, and it was a new gear for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
For more than seven hours over 18 innings with the Boston Red Sox, there was no give. There was no take. There was only grunting and swinging, stretching and screaming. There was the longest World Series game ever played, both in innings and time, a duel that started in the late afternoon sun when the first pitch was thrown at 5:10 p.m. local time and ended, finally, under the cover of darkness at 12:30 a.