Freddie Freeman doubled in consecutive innings on Friday night, driving in a run during the Dodgers’ winning rally in the sixth inning, when adding an insurance run with a great slide at home plate after a double in the seventh inning.
The Dodgers first baseman had three hits on Friday and has four multi-hit games during his five-game hitting streak, going 10 for 20 during that span. Freeman leads the National League in batting average (.368), OPS (1.065), and wRC+ (192), while Shohei Ohtani leads in slugging percentage (.670) and Will Smith leads in on-base percentage (.458). Freeman, Ohtani, and Smith are 1-2-3, in that order, in both OPS and wRC+.
Freeman has 19 multi-double games since joining the Dodgers in 2022, most in baseball during that stretch. His 16 doubles on the season are two shy of the NL lead, which is more impressive considering Freeman missed 11 games earlier in the season.
With two doubles on Friday, Freeman has 524 career doubles, matching Ken Griffey Jr. for 48th place in MLB history. Freeman is in a Cooperstown-heavy portion of the doubles leaderboard, with Willie Mays and Ted Williams up next at 525 doubles and Dave Parker in 45th place at 526 doubles.
So far this year, Freeman has already passed 10 folks on the doubles leaderboard, after climbing over 30 players last season and 75 players during his 59-double 2023 season.
Freeman surpassed a milestone earlier in May with 900 career extra-base hits, and is now at 908. He’s also 26 total bases shy of becoming the 91st player with 4,000 total bases.
Saturday game info
- Teams: Dodgers vs. Yankees
- Stadium: Dodger Stadium
- Start time: 4:15 p.m.
- TV: Fox
- Radio: AM 570 (English), KTNQ 1020 AM (Spanish)
