Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman was a well-deserved World Sequence MVP after hitting 4 dwelling runs and delivering a few of the greatest hits within the Dodgers’ five-game sequence win.
There was some concern about his well being going into the sequence resulting from an ankle harm, and it seems that may have even been the worst of the accidents he was coping with.
Freeman was additionally taking part in by damaged rib cartilage that he suffered whereas taking some swings within the batting cage earlier in October.
More on that injury, from ESPN’s Jeff Passan:
Unable to even choose himself off the ground, Freeman was helped into the X-ray room subsequent to Los Angeles’ dugout. The outcomes had been inconclusive, and round 9:30 p.m., he acquired a name. The Dodgers wished him to drive to Santa Monica for extra imaging. He hopped within the automotive, then in an MRI tube. Round 11:30 p.m., the outcomes arrived: Freeman had damaged the costal cartilage in his sixth rib, an harm that sometimes sidelines gamers for months.
Passan went on to put in writing that Freeman’s father urged him to cease taking part in this postseason resulting from what he was going by with the rib and ankle accidents. Freeman, clearly, refused to offer in and stored going.
He ended up placing collectively probably the most spectacular World Sequence performances of all time, homering in 4 consecutive video games, together with the primary ever walk-off grand slam in World Sequence historical past. He additionally delivered an enormous two-out, two-run single within the high of the fifth inning within the Dodgers’ wild Sport 5 comeback.
The accidents are simply a part of what makes the Dodgers’ win so spectacular.
Their pitching workers had been decimated by accidents all season, they usually had been principally down to simply three starters for the World Sequence. Add within the dislocated shoulder harm for Shohei Ohtani, in addition to the whole lot Freeman was taking part in by, and it’s as gritty of a win as you possibly can probably think about.
