NEW YORK (AP) – Freddie Freeman took his newborn son and wife home from a hospital, stayed up through most of the night and headed from Atlanta to New York.
This is what adrenaline can do: He got four hits, including a two-run homer, and drove in three runs to help the last-place Braves to a 7-3 win over the contending Mets on Monday night.
“My flight was at 11:30, but that doesn’t mean I got any sleep last night because my son was screaming his head off,” Freeman said. “He found out what his lungs can do last night.”
Freeman was seen on television rushing from the dugout to the clubhouse during the seventh inning of last Wednesday’s game against Miami at Turner Field when he received a message that his wife had gone into labor.
Frederick Charles Freeman II was born Thursday.