Freddie Freeman dedicates his World Series “moment” to his father

Shortly after crossing home plate after his 409-foot home run cleared the right field fence and a sellout crowd erupted at Dodger Stadium in the 10th inning Friday night, Freddie Freeman sprinted to the seats behind the batter's box and celebrated with him Father through the net.

“I just screamed in his face,” Freeman joked on the field during a postgame interview with Fox. “I’m sorry, Dad.”

But in the midst of a difficult season and a difficult postseason, Freeman dedicated his walk-off grand slam in the opening game of the World Series — which gave the Dodgers a 6-3 victory and will serve as one of the defining swings of his career — to his father, Fred says, “This is not my moment, this is my father’s moment.”

“My swing is thanks to him,” Freeman told reporters. “My approach is thanks to him. I am who I am because of him. It was a kind of spontaneous moment. … I just wanted to share that with him because he's been there. He also went through a lot in his life and to experience a moment like that, I just wanted to be a part of it with him in that moment.”

Freeman missed eight games in late July and early August after his 3-year-old son Maximus developed a “severe case of Guillain-Barré syndrome,” Freddie's wife Chelsea wrote in an Instagram post at the time.

Maximus at one point “rapidly lost weight and went into full-body paralysis” due to the rare neurological disease and was hospitalized, Chelsea wrote, and when Freeman returned to the Dodgers game on August 5, the star first baseman was given a standing ovation welcomed.

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Then, near the end of the regular season, Freeman suffered an ankle injury that forced him to limp through what postseason games he was able to play.

He missed Game 4 of the NLDS with the Dodgers' season on the line.

He also missed Games 4 and 6 of the NLCS while slumping at the plate in the games he did play.

But Freeman said his foot felt better Friday night, which was evident when he turned a ball off the wall in foul territory into a triple when Yankees left fielder Alex Verdugo misplayed it.

Then, later that evening, with the Dodgers trailing in extras and a chance to grab an early advantage in the World Series slipping away, Freeman intentionally made the Yankees pay for Mookie Betts and for Nestor Cortes to face the former MVP took over.

“As soon as he swung, I knew it was a good swing,” Fred told The Athletic. “But you never know. (I thought) is it far enough? Is it far enough? And then I saw him do the mic drop with the bat. And I knew it was gone.”