Red-hot Freeman sets record with HR in SIXTH straight World Series game

NEW YORK — He did it again.

Freddie Freeman just won’t stop mashing World Series home runs. And with his first-inning home run in Game 4 on Tuesday night, he mashed his way straight into the record books.

Freeman became the first player in history to homer in six consecutive World Series games, dating back to his trip to the Fall Classic with Atlanta in 2021. He has homered in every game of the ‘24 World Series — including a potentially series-defining walk-off grand slam in Game 1.

Freeman’s blast on Tuesday night gave the Dodgers a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning. No player has ever homered in every game of a World Series — an accomplishment that is distinctly possible with L.A. having entered play Tuesday holding a 3-0 series lead.

Only Houston’s George Springer had homered in four straight games within a single World Series, having done so in Games 4-7 in 2017, but Freeman is the first to do it in the first four games of the Fall Classic.

“I guess I’m seeing the ball very well,” Freeman said after his homer on Monday night. “Obviously not missing mistakes.”

The trend continued into Game 4. After Mookie Betts smacked a one-out double into the right-field corner, Yankees starter Luis Gil hung a slider on the outer half. Freeman launched it into the right-field seats at Yankee Stadium.

With the home run, Freeman is now hitting .385 in four games this World Series with an absurd 1.891 OPS. His nine RBIs in the series set a franchise record — passing Duke Snider (1952) and Gil Hodges (‘56) who each had eight.

“Obviously, we all know how great of a player Freddie Freeman is,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said after Game 3. “He’s getting off swings you’re typically used to seeing Freddie get off, where maybe that wasn’t happening in the previous rounds with the injury.”

Unlike Gibson, who famously only recorded one at-bat in that 1988 Fall Classic, Freeman has continued to play, and he hasn’t stopped hitting. He appears to be in line to take home World Series MVP honors.

“For a guy like Freddie, who doesn’t really need anything more to cement his legacy,” said Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy, “this has been a pretty special run.”