Freddie Freeman’s magical moment will live long in the memory of any Los Angeles Dodgers fan.
On a badly injured ankle in Game 1, he came to the plate with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 10th and belted the first walk-off grand slam in World Series history.
Freeman sent the Dodgers to an electrifying 6-3 victory that night, and they never looked back.
“It felt like nothing. I was just floating,” he said when asked to describe the moment last month.
And things quickly got even better for the Dodgers’ first baseman.
Freeman was named World Series MVP after Los Angeles clinched the title with a 7-6 win in Game 5.
He also set a major league record for most consecutive World Series games with a home run.
The 35-year-old’s streak of six began with the last two games of his appearance in the 2021 series with the Atlanta Braves and continued with the first four games against the Yankees.
His walk-off grand slam might just be the pick of the bunch – but there’s not too much about it that Freeman remembers.
Speaking to Jason and Travis Kelce on the New Heights podcast this week, the MLB icon admitted that he ‘blacked out’ after the hit.
“Walk off, grand slam, home run. How the f*** did that feel?” Jason asked.
“I don’t really remember it, I kind of blacked out,” Freeman responded, before breaking down the play.
“You’re trying to remember the feeling and I can’t. I usually look away, to just drive the ball to left center, and I was like you know what, I’m going to switch it up.
“So I was looking closer to me. I was looking heater in, to up and in. And I guessed right. He threw it right in the spot I was looking.”
After breaking down the hit, Freeman discussed his celebration too.
“I don’t pimp home runs. I usually hit them and just run around the bases. But, I mean, a walk-off grand slam in the world series,” he continued.
“Usually we wave at the bullpen, they were going nuts obviously. I started screaming at them.
“I got to home plate and Miguel Rojas goes, ‘Freddie, stop jumping. I don’t want you to get hurt.’ I looked at him and I said, ‘I don’t feel a thing’. I was just screaming at him.”
Freeman finished celebrating by running over to his father, who was sitting in the front row, to share the historic moment with him too.
The hit will go down in World Series history, and what makes it even more impressive is that Freeman did it while he was pretty banged up.
His ankle issue was well known at the time, but in the aftermath of the Dodgers’ win, it was also revealed that he playing the postseason with broken rib cartilage.
Despite the injuries, Freeman still slugged his way to World Series MVP.
