Gibson told Dodgers Insider that he didn’t watch most of the game because he was at his farm in Michigan. But when he checked in, he had an idea of ​​what could happen if Freeman was at the plate and the bases were loaded.

“I just thought, ‘This is going to happen,’” Gibson told Dodgers Insider. “I could just feel it.”

Freeman’s clutch moment led Dodger fans and baseball experts to draw a comparison between his home run and Gibson’s home run in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series.

Gibson had been dealing with injuries to both legs and hit a pinch-hit walk-off home run to etch his name in the Dodgers’ history books. It was his only at bat in the 1988 World Series.