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MLB playoffs: How Dodgers' Freddie Freeman fought to the NLCS - ESPN

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LOS ANGELES — They wore black T-shirts commemorating their return to the National League Championship Series and congregated in front of the Dodger Stadium pitcher's mound Friday night, in prime position for a team photograph.

But it quickly became clear that someone was missing. And so roughly 70 members of the 2024 Los Angeles Dodgers — players, coaches, trainers, doctors, clubbies — chanted for him in unison.

Fre-ddie! Fre-ddie! Fre-ddie! Freddie Freeman emerged from an interview and hobbled over, lifting both arms to the sky before plopping down in front of them.

Fifteen days earlier, Freeman had suffered an ankle sprain that should have kept him out for as many as six weeks. He returned in a little more than one, somehow taking 12 at-bats and playing 29 defensive innings to help the Dodgers vanquish their hated rivals, the San Diego Padres, in the division series.

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