Freddie Freeman’s metronome-like greatness, game after game, year after year can sometimes get taken for granted, particularly in the grind of a 162-game season. So it was fitting that a man whose propensity to put bat to ball sometimes feels as guaranteed as the sun rising took our breath away with an extraordinary base hit in an ordinary Dodgers blowout win in June on Tuesday night.
Freeman, in his fifth plate appearance of Tuesday’s 12–3 win over the Pirates, ripped the first pitch he saw back up the middle for an RBI single—and the 2,500th hit of his career. Freeman is the only active player in MLB to reach the 2,500-hit checkpoint.
