It feels like not that long ago that Game 3 of the 2025 World Series ended…because it wasn’t. Freddie Freeman’s 18th-inning walk-off home run to finish off the Toronto Blue Jays and give the Los Angeles Dodgers a pivotal 2-1 lead cleared the center field fence at Dodger Stadium just before 3 a.m. ET, with Game 4 set to begin at 8:08 p.m. ET. The turnaround is short, and Los Angeles emptied its bullpen so much that Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who pitched a complete game in Game 2, was warming up in the bullpen to enter in the top of the 19th if he needed to.
It’ll be Shohei Ohtani, fresh off of a postseason record performance in which he reached base in each of his nine plate appearances thanks to a trio of intentional walks, taking the mound for the Dodgers, with Shane Bieber set to crest the hill for Toronto.
While there are thousands of prop bets available for every game of the World Series at DraftKings Sportsbook, Same Game Parlays (SGPs) are among the most fun and rewarding ways for any fan to participate in the action. I’ve crafted a three-leg SGP with +480 odds for tonight’s Game 4, an absolute must-win for the Blue Jays.
Dodgers vs. Blue Jays Same Game Parlay
- First 5 Innings – U3.5 Runs
- Shohei Ohtani O18.5 Outs Recorded
- Shohei Ohtani 2+ Walks
First 5 Innings – U3.5 Runs
After the seventh inning, both teams put on absolute pitching masterclasses, combining for 10 scoreless frames before Freeman finally connected on a Brendon Little middle-middle sinker with the sixth pitch in the bottom of the 18th. Though Games 1 and Games 3 both went over the total overall, these teams have to be exhausted. To be fair, in Game 4 of the 2018 World Series, Los Angeles and the Boston Red Sox combined for 15 runs, but they all came in the last four innings, most against exhausted bullpens that had combined for 16.1 innings in the 18-inning marathon the night before. Very few pitchers on either team are fresh, but Ohtani and Bieber are. Bieber hasn’t allowed more than two earned runs in any of his postseason starts, and Ohtani pitched six scoreless innings in his last start.
Shohei Ohtani O18.5 Outs Recorded
Ohtani has never recorded more than 18 outs as a Dodger — he started the seventh inning in his NLCS close-out masterpiece but was pulled after allowing the first two batters of the inning to reach — but it’s not like Dave Roberts has many other options. He surely wouldn’t have preferred for Yamamoto to warm up two days after throwing 105 pitches, but he literally had no other relievers left. Besides Anthony Banda, Blake Treinen, Jack Dreyer, and Clayton Kershaw, every other Los Angeles reliever threw at least 29 pitches last night, likely knocking them out for tonight, and every Dodgers fan would prefer if Kershaw’s successful one-out stint last night was the last of his Hall of Fame career. Having Ohtani record at least one out in the seventh might allow Roberts to save one of Banda, Treinen, and Dreyer for Game 5.
Shohei Ohtani 2+ Walks
To be clear, this is about Ohtani the batter, not Ohtani the pitcher, and — amazingly — if you placed a bet on this as a standalone prop, the odds would be -201. This is my safe pick: Toronto has to be traumatized not only by his two-homer performance last night but also by his three-homer closeout game in the NLCS, and he might not receive a middle-middle pitch to hit for years to come. If the game is close in the late stages and first base is empty — which it’s been quite frequently this series, given No. 9 hitter Andy Pages’ struggles — Ohtani is a near-guarantee to be intentionally walked. There’s an off-chance that he wins World Series MVP without recording another official at-bat.
