LOS ANGELES – Freddie Freeman is back in the Dodgers’ lineup for the winner-take-all Game 5 of the National League Division Series against the Padres after two days of rest on his sprained right ankle.

Freeman has three hits in 11 at-bats in the NLDS thus far, with seven of his nine balls in the game classified as hard-hit with exit velocities of at least 90 mph. He left Game 2 after feeling more pain in the ankle, which had been sprained on September 26, and was immediately replaced after a single for a pinch-runner in the eighth inning of Game 3, when it was clear he couldn’t do much run.

He didn’t play at all in Game 4, even though the Dodgers initially listed Freeman in the lineup as a playmaker.

“With two days off — he hasn’t tried to prepare (for Game 4) — he’s feeling better after treatment,” manager Dave Roberts said Thursday. “I just have a feeling he’ll be there tomorrow.”

Shortstop Miguel Rojas will not start, which was expected since he left Game 3 in the third inning feeling more discomfort with his torn adductor. Rojas did not play at all in Game 4, and is unlikely to play in Game 5. Roberts said Thursday that Rojas could potentially pinch-hit.

That means Tommy Edman will be called up at shortstop, where he has played the last 15 defensive innings after 20 innings in center field to open the NLDS.

Kiké Hernández will get the start in center in Game 5 after his two hits in Game 4. He started at third base in that game, but switched positions with Chris Taylor in center field and returned on Wednesday.

“Obviously you act with urgency because every game is important, and Kiké has shown that he’s going to be up for the postseasons,” Roberts said of Hernández, a career .276/.351/.535 with a 134 wRC+ in 74 postseason games. . “The sample size over the course of a season is certainly something, but the sample size does not, in my opinion, equate to any type of success at some point after the season. It’s a kind of person, that specific moment, and you have to make a bet. That’s how I look at it.”