Freddie Freeman has finished the 2024 season – there are wins, but he fights injuries and his 2025 season begins with the same note.
The 2024 World Series MVP was scratched from the lineup Tuesday due to a discomfort in the left rib ahead of the Dodgers' opening 4-1 season victory over the Cubs of the Tokyo Series.
Freeman was scheduled to play a third man and a man's base, but veteran Kique Hernandez replaced him.
35 year old freeman It is reportedly practiced batting. It shows that injuries burned just before the game before Tuesday's game before being removed from the starting nine.
Freeman finished the 2024 season, playing his fewest game since 2017, and he still managed 147 appearances.
That ankle injury and rib issues hindered him in the playoffs and locked him out of the lineup against the Mets in Game 4 of the NLCS, but he didn't slow the illness during the World Series.
Freeman's walk-off grand slam in 10 innings of Game 1 against the Yankees set the tone of the fall classic, earning MVP honors for hitting .300 with 4 Homer, 12 RBI and 1.654 OPS.
The first base hand finally had offseason ankle surgery on its right ankle.
This season is the fourth mark against Los Angeles, and the former MVP pair of Freeman and Mookie Betts (Illness) speaks to the insane depths of the Dodgers that they missed the game and they hummed.
The Dodgers scored three runs in the fifth, taking a 1-0 lead, with Yoshinobu Yamamoto taking the victory behind five innings of one run ball.
New Closer Tanner Scott recorded Save, pitching the perfect ninth in his team debut.
The team will meet again Wednesday for their second game in a two-game stint.
