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