NEW YORK — Los Angeles Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts left open the potential for sitting Freddie Freeman for Sport 6 of the Nationwide League Championship Collection, saying “his swing is just not proper” as a result of ankle damage that has hampered the primary baseman all postseason.
The 35-year-old Freeman, who severely sprained his proper ankle Sept. 26, returned to the Dodgers’ lineup of their Sport 5 loss Friday to the New York Mets after lacking the sequence’ fourth recreation. Freeman went 0 for five with two strikeouts within the cleanup spot, one place under his typical No. 3 spot in Los Angeles’ batting order.
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“I’ll have a dialog with him [Saturday],” Roberts mentioned. “However I do suppose that his swing is just not proper. I am sure it is the ankle. We’ll have that dialog, but it surely’s actually an choice to not have him in there for Sport 6.”
After logging a pair of hits, scoring a run and driving in one other within the Dodgers’ Sport 1 victory, Freeman has struggled. He’s 1 for his final 15 and hasn’t walked. In all the postseason, he’s hitting .219/.242/.219 with seven singles, one stroll, six strikeouts and no extra-base hits in 33 plate appearances.
When Freeman sat out Sport 4, the Dodgers moved Max Muncy from third base to first base, Kiké Hernández from heart subject to 3rd and performed Andy Pages — who homered twice Friday within the Dodgers’ 12-6 loss that despatched the sequence again to Los Angeles — in heart subject. Los Angeles nonetheless leads the best-of-seven sequence 3-2.
Freeman, an eight-time All-Star and former NL MVP, spends hours earlier than each recreation getting remedy on the ankle. Throughout his pregame routine at Citi Area on Friday, he was grimacing as he tried to organize the ankle to play.
After lining out to first base with runners on second and third within the first inning, Freeman grounded out to first, struck out trying, struck out swinging and flied out to heart subject.
