World Series Game 4: What's next after Game 3 marathon?

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LOS ANGELES -- Even before Dodgers manager Dave Roberts had time to really process his team's historic 6-5, 18-inning World Series Game 3 win over the Toronto Blue Jays, his mind was already starting to spin to a forward-looking reality.

"It's one of the greatest World Series games of all time. Emotional. I'm spent emotionally," Roberts said. "We've got a ballgame later tonight, which is crazy."

It is crazy. Even crazier is that Monday's Game 3 rendered Game 3 of the 2018 World Series as a no-longer-a-once-in-lifetime-event. Because now there have been two 18-inning Fall Classic games at Dodger Stadium, both won by the home team on a game-ending home run. And in both…