How Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman went from ‘1 percent chance’ of playing in Game 1 to starring in it
This wasn’t Kirk Gibson hobbling to the plate and homering off Dennis Eckersley in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series. But Freeman wound up going 2-for-5 in the Dodgers’ 7-5 victory over the Padres. He even stole a base, stunning his teammates and opponents and gaining even greater respect from them in the process.