As Dodgers fans painfully know, superstar first baseman and future Hall of Famer Freddie Freeman painfully rolled his right ankle in a game against the San Diego Padres at Dodger Stadium on September 26, 2024, for which he had to come out of the game.
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Amazingly, the 35-year-old Villa Park, CA native and second-round draft pick in 2007 by the Atlanta Braves out of El Modena High School in Orange, CA not only managed to return to action for the 2024 postseason, he hit a Kirk Gibson-esque bottom-of-the-10th-inning walk-off grand slam home run to give the Dodgers a 6-3 win over the New York Yankees in Game-1 of the 2024 World Series, prompting Dodgers broadcaster Joe Davis to say “Gibby, meet Freddie.”
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Freeman’s dramatic walk off grand slam was the first game-winning grand slam in World Series history.
On Thursday, the Dodgers reported on social media that Freeman had successfully undergone surgury on his right ankle, adding that the extremely popular Dodgers first baseman would be ready to return to action when the team begins Cactus League play on Thursday, February 20, 2025 against the Chicago Cubs at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, AZ:
Play Ball!
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