Freddie Freeman was an unstoppable force in the World Series and a hero for the Los Angeles Dodgers against the New York Yankees.

Who knows how the 35-year-old slugger’s life would have changed if he hadn’t played the hero as a child and saved his father’s life when he was 12 years old, after losing his mother to cancer at the time.

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The heavy favorite to win the World Series MVP after hitting a home run in every game of the Fall Classic so far (including Game 4 tonight after already setting a new Guinness world record), broke down in tears and described sobbing the day his life almost began. changed forever.

“I’m just sitting in that (hospital) room,” the Dodgers first baseman told ESPN’s “E:60.” “The doctor comes into the room and I’m with my father. And he says, Mr. Freeman, you were lucky to come to the hospital tonight. If you hadn’t come in and gone to sleep, you probably would have died in your sleep.”

Fred Freeman, Freddie’s father, said matter-of-factly, “Freddie really saved my life that night.” Freeman’s father had congestive heart failure, so Freddie taking his father to the hospital was literally a life saver.

“I was so close to being parentless at the age of 12,” Freeman concluded.

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Freeman has handled life’s adversities as smoothly as his swing. He and his wife Chelsea had a huge scare this season in late July when their youngest son, Max, 3, was rushed to the hospital during the season. It was a nightmarish ordeal and he was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare neurological condition. Mrs Freeman gave a heartwarming update earlier this month that Max was able to walk into her arms for the first time since being diagnosed.

No wonder Freeman is so cool under pressure.

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