Regardless of how the 2024 World Series plays out, Freddie Freeman’s performance will be remembered for a while.

The Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman made history in Game 4 on Tuesday with a two-run homer off New York Yankees rookie Luis Gil, putting the Dodgers up 2-0 in the first inning of an elimination game for New York. It wasn’t the longest homer, at 350 feet, but Yankee Stadium will help a lot of left-handed power bats.

For the first time in this series, Freeman’s home run wasn’t enough to lift the Dodgers to victory. The Yankees rallied from 11-4 to extend the World Series to Game 5 on Wednesday and cut their deficit to 3-1. Freeman finished his night 1-for-4 at the plate with the home run, one run scored and three RBI.

The history Freeman made is twofold. He is the first player to ever homer in the first four games of a World Series, having previously been tied with Barry Bonds and Hank Bauer at three. He has also now hit home runs in six consecutive World Series games after going deep in the final two games of the Atlanta Braves’ 2021 win.

Freeman has been one of the top players in the MLB for years, but has reached another level in this Fall Classic. He also entered this series without any issues after spraining his right ankle near the end of the regular season and being significantly limited in the first two rounds of the postseason.

Freeman didn’t post an extra base hit in the NLDS or NLCS, and he missed a few games to help his ankle heal, but he now has four home runs, plus a triple, in the games that matter most. The most memorable of those home runs, of course, was his walk-off grand slam in Game 1, the first of its kind in World Series history.