Freddie Freeman's Walk Off Showed Exactly Why Hitting A Home Run In A Big Spot Is The Absolute Coolest Thing You Can Ever Do In Sports
Name me something cooler than hitting a big time home run in a massive spot, you can't! Freddie Freeman gave us another prime example of why hitting a brass balls home run is by far the coolest thing you can do in sports. It's the perfect play. A home run like this, especially a walk-off in the World Series is impossible to top. Not a goal in the Stanley Cup, not a game winning 3 in an NBA Finals game, not a game winning field goal in a Super Bowl, not getting the overtime question right in The Dozen, none of those compare to a home run like we saw from Freddie last night. The home run is the best play out there. Right off the bat you think it's gone but then there's the 3-4 second waiting period.
You're watching the fielder, you're looking at the ball to try and judge to see if it has enough. Back to the fielder, you watch the fans to see where they are starting to gather in the stands to catch it and then you get that BOOM of the ball coming down and everyone loses their shit. That 3-4 seconds where the ball is in the air and you have no clue what's going to happen is just the best. You can hear the crowd start to anticipate it and then they explode when it goes over. Simply nothing like it in sports, the scene last night proves that. The stage doesn't get any bigger either, this is what Freddie Freeman had been practicing in his backyard for the last 30 years. You're down in the World Series and can end the game with 1 swing, what an awesome fucking moment.
He knew it right away too, the stare, holding the bat straight up, the look back at the crowd and then the subtle little bat toss. As perfect as perfect can get. Talk about being cool under pressure, Freeman was the most locked in there. Didn't matter who was on the mound there, Freddie was in control and pissed all over that ball. And just look at the reaction buy the Dodgers dugout. Kevin Kiermaier jumped over that fence like Bennie The Jet and was on the field before the ball was even out of the infield, the immediate flood of teammates always adds to the incredible scene. I fucking love walk-off homers man, last night was a perfect example why.
There is just something very primal about a pitcher vs batter matchup in baseball. You have a guy who is throwing the ball as hard as he physically can vs a guy who is trying to hit the ball as far as he physically can. Sometimes it works out for the pitcher, sometimes it works out for the hitter. And man is it so much fucking cooler when it works out for the batter. Being able to look at a guy in his eyes and know "you threw your best stuff at me and I deposited it 410 feet away and turned that ball into a souvenir." That's so damn cool. Man do I love baseball. Plus after home runs you get the lingering crowd on the field after the celebration and it gave us this awesome scene with Freddie and his dad. Every kid has those memories with their dad practicing and playing in the backyard, Freddie just lived out that dream to the 1,000th degree. Such a cool moment for the Freeman family, after all of the awful stuff they've had to deal with this year. Coolest thing you can do in sports and it isn't even close.