Freddie Freeman has basically done everything in Major League Baseball. He is an eight-time All-Star. Five-time All-MLB Team honoree. Former National League (NL) MVP. Owner of several regular season awards. Now the 35-year-old can call himself the World Series MVP. Freeman and the Los Angeles Dodgers won the 2024 World Series on Wednesday, defeating the New York Yankees 7-6 in Game 5 to win the series four-to-1.

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This is the eighth championship in Dodgers team history and the second championship of Freeman’s career, following the title he won with the Atlanta Braves three years ago. The 15-year MLB veteran entered the Fall Classic with a sprained ankle but soothed Dodgers fans immediately with a historic performance in Game 1 and became the standout player of the team throughout the series. Freeman alluded to the health problems of his three-year-old son Max, who was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome – a rare neurological disorder in which the body’s immune system attacks cells Neurology – earlier this year.

In July, Max was completely paralyzed and Freeman left the Dodgers to be with his family at the hospital. Ultimately, doctors said his son would recover, and Freeman returned to the team in August. “These have been the hardest and scariest days of our lives,” Freeman’s wife, Chelsea, wrote on Instagram. “Maximus is a special boy and he has fought VERY hard. This will be a journey of recovery, but we are confident he will be fully healed.” “I would never compare Maximus to baseball,” Freeman said after Game 5, according to the Associated Press. “I won’t do that. Those are just two separate things, but with him playing so well now, it means a little bit more.”