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Freddie Freeman (6-21-24)

Jun 22, 20244 min
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DV catches up with Freddie before the Dodgers start a 2-game series against the Angels.

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Sometimes we all need somebody to lean on, and yesterday Freddie Freeman leaned on Key k Hernandez and his first base coach, Clayton McCullough. Freddy, you can lean on me anytime. I appreciate that. That was a good that's a good lead in to serve your nice one, David. Yeah, that's that's not as easy as people think. Playing four games at course Field. Yeah, you know, I've obviously never dealt with that before. But usually

it's a three game series you can get through. It's usually night games too. But our first day there of the four days, it was a really hot one is in the upper nineties. Next two days are okay, but it just takes a twenty body. You're just not used to the altitude. But the fourth day obviously day game, and it was in about low nineties there too, and long four days. We're in a tough stretch of twelve

in a row. My last that bat, you know, there's you can sniff it hit and smell it hit sometimes and I emptied the tank and obviously I'm thinking it all the way and I need a little help with back to the first base. Hey, the last Dodger player I heard that went to the oxygen mask was reliever Jp Howe. So two lefties going to the tank. Yeah, but there's actually a few guys that went to the tank. I just don't know. You don't hear about it. During that series we

had, we scored a few runs. A lot of guys scored goal from first to home. It's mostly the outfielders. That's a like it's a little little bit of running the right field and back. So that one game Jay Hay played, he scored from first and he kept running back and forth that he was a little tired too. So I'm not gonna throw some people out there, but there's a few other guys that took some mosters, not just me. Hey, Freddie, it's okay, nothing to be worried about.

The biggest thing is Freddie Freeman's in the starting lineup today. Well you thought that was what did you think it out? No way, no way. I got a day off on Sunday. Yeah, what are days off? What are days off? Freddie had five walks in the first game at Corus Field. Is that indicative of how well you're seeing the ball? Well? I would actually beg to differ on that. I had about six or seven pitches to hit and foul them off. So I obviously I can critique myself

more than anybody in this ell critique me. But I had some pitches of the hit, but I was ultimately able to lead to walks and not get myself out. But the swing has been better off the last you know, three or four weeks, but still some cut swings here and there, but ultimately better swings each day. Wow, Freddie, that was not the answer I was expecting. You are so hard on yourself. How do you allow yourself to enjoy the fruits of your labor? I don't, I think if

you ask my wife, it ever happens. I just yeah, I expect a lot of myself. But yeah, maybe maybe when I'm done playing playing, I'll and I'll look back. But as I'm in it, yeah, it's usually never good enough. Freddie, you grew up in Orange County. Obviously the Angels were your team. Do you get excited wearing this uniform in a freeway series? I get excited, Yeah, be home and playing in front of my family pretty much every single day, like my dad's gonna be

coming tonight. So that's the cool thing. What's cool to me is playing these games and I get to see Garrett Anderson walk on the field, which I just saw him about ten minutes ago. So he's obviously my favorite player growing up, so being able to come here and see him, and you know, that's what's so enjoyable for me, and being home. Obviously I didn't grow up a Dodgers fan because I grew up ten minutes from Angel Stadium. But I think we're all Dodger fans now, so we've got to beat

the Angels, yeah, no doubt. And Charlie's here too, your dad, Charlie, and nobody cares about course fielding the Freeman family, None of them did. The three year olds were opening up fight early. We played some hide and seek at the house, we did some stuff, and then obviously came here and started throwing at Charlie and doing that, and yeah, they don't care about that. Yeah, Freddy's got a lather like it's the seventh inning of the game already. I know, we just we just threw

two buckets. I did my work out here, I'm about to go hit them in the cage. So about six hours straight hopefully of good stuff. Right, you know, there's one other Dizzy related song, The Goo Goo Dolls Dizzy David, let's just end this thing. Yeah, it sounds good. Thanks Freddy David

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