Freddie Freeman dedicates emotional World Series walk-off to father in heartwarming moment

In nan moments aft crossing location plate, aft his 409-foot homer had crossed nan right-field obstruction and a packed Dodger Stadium crowd erupted successful nan 10th inning Friday night, Freddie Freeman sprinted complete to nan seats down nan batter’s container and celebrated pinch his begetter done nan netting.

“I [was] conscionable screaming successful his face,” Freeman joked during a postgame question and reply connected nan section pinch Fox. “Sorry dad.”

But successful nan mediate of a trying play and trying postseason, Freeman dedicated his walk-off expansive slam successful nan World Series opener — which gave nan Dodgers a 6-3 win and will service arsenic 1 of nan defining swings of his profession — to his father, Fred, saying “this isn’t my moment, that’s my dad’s moment.”

“My plaything is because of him,” Freeman told reporters. “My attack is because of him. I americium who I americium because of him. It was benignant of spur of nan moment. … I conscionable wanted to stock that pinch him because he’s been there. He’s been done a batch successful his life too, and conscionable to person a infinitesimal for illustration that, I conscionable wanted to beryllium a portion of that pinch him successful that moment.”

Freeman missed 8 games astatine nan extremity of July and into early August aft his 3-year-old son, Maximus, developed a “severe lawsuit of Guillain-Barré syndrome,” Freddie’s wife, Chelsea, wrote successful an Instagram station astatine nan time.

Maximus, astatine 1 point, “rapidly declined and went into afloat assemblage paralysis” owed to nan uncommon neurological information and was hospitalized, Chelsea wrote, and erstwhile Freeman returned for nan Dodgers’ Aug. 5 game, a opinionated ovation greeted nan prima first baseman.

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Then, adjacent nan extremity of nan regular season, Freeman sustained an ankle wounded that forced him to hobble his measurement done nan postseason games he could negociate to play.

He missed Game 4 of nan NLDS pinch nan Dodgers’ play connected nan line.

He missed Games 4 and 6 of nan NLCS, too, while slumping astatine nan sheet successful nan games he did play.

But Freeman said his ft felt amended Friday night, evident erstwhile he turned a shot disconnected nan wall successful foul territory into a triple erstwhile Yankees near fielder Alex Verdugo misplayed it.

Then, later successful nan night, pinch nan Dodgers down 1 successful extras and a chance to snag an early World Series advantage slipping away, Freeman made nan Yankees salary for intentionally Mookie Betts and having Nestor Cortes look nan erstwhile MVP.

“As soon arsenic he swung, I knew it was a bully swing,” Fred told The Athletic. “But you ne'er know. [I thought] is it acold enough? Is it acold enough? And past I saw him do nan mic driblet pinch nan bat. And I knew it was gone.”