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Chelsea Freeman on husband Freddie Freeman’s World Series run and son’s health journey
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Chelsea Freeman on husband Freddie Freeman’s World Series run and son’s health journey

Chelsea Freeman talks about her husband Los Angeles Dodgers star Freddie Freeman‘s impressive performance MLB World Series and the behind-the-scenes support of his family.

In an exclusive interview withGood Morning America” Played before the 5th match World SeriesThe mother of three talked about her husband’s incredible run, her son Max Freeman’s recent health battle, and the community that supports the Dodgers.

Chelsea Freeman and her children in a photo she shared on Instagram on World Series Game 1.

Chelsea Freeman/Instagram

“The craziest thing is he’s injured right now, so he’s playing with a sprained ankle, a broken finger and all that stuff. So our standards were very low,” he said.

“It’s like a miracle that he plays as well as he does. It’s really hard to even put into words the things he does,” she said of her husband, who hit a home run in every World Series game. Despite struggling with injuries this season, including an ankle injury in the playoffs.

“He’s such a perfectionist that he doesn’t think he’s performing as well as he wants to. It’s absolutely incredible that with everything he’s done, he’s finally got this grade,” she said.

Chelsea Freeman also touched on the Freeman family’s reaction to watching the Dodgers’ first baseman hit his historic, first-ever World Series walk-off grand slam in the first game of the series.

He said his oldest son, 8-year-old Charlie, who also plays baseball, watched his father’s heroic moment in the Dodgers’ kids’ room.

“The Dodgers have the craziest nursery… I mean, he was in the nursery with Brandon and Max,” she said, referring to her two 3-year-old sons she shares with Freddie. “He said all the kids were watching, huddled around the TV and thinking: ‘We’re about to lose, we’re really hoping not to lose, but we’re two out in the 10th inning and we’re down.'”

“Freddie hit that ball. And he said they all started going crazy, like they were jumping on him, jumping up and down, like it was the coolest moment ever.”

Despite overcoming injuries to achieve tremendous success on the field, the Freeman family faced new personal challenges at home this season. This summer, Chelsea shared that their son Max was diagnosed. Guillain-Barré syndrome.

Chelsea, Max and Freddie Freeman appear in a photo posted on Instagram of Max’s stay in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Chelsea Freeman/Instagram

on Instagram to postHe wrote that Max “quickly refused and suffered full-body paralysis” but they were able to bring him to the hospital to “strengthen his lungs.” She shared that they were “extubated off the breathing tube and off the ventilator” after some of the “hardest and scariest days” for their family. She also asked for prayers in her emotional update.

according to National Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeThe syndrome is “a rare neurological disorder in which a person’s immune system mistakenly attacks part of the peripheral nervous system.”

Chelsea shared that Max is “doing much better” now and is receiving physical therapy.

“As for Guillain-Barré — he’s still doing PT — all of that, but I mean, his evolution was absolutely mind-blowing,” he said. “Our PTs, neurologists, or doctors were very excited about how well he was doing.”

He said the family has found an incredible support system within the Dodgers organization.

Chelsea Freeman and her children in the photo she shared on Instagram on World Series Game 2.

Chelsea Freeman/Instagram

“The Dodgers have been so supportive of us, our family, and Max from the very beginning, I felt like every spouse in that organization reached out to me… I felt so connected.”

He continued, “We’re family and we know we can count on them for anything and they’ve got our back. So I think it’s so nice for Freddie to finally have his moment and give back to them and to the fans and the Dodgers in general because throughout this whole process “They were absolutely incredible to us.”

The Dodgers are currently one win away from winning the World Series and are hoping to knock off the New York Yankees in a series that features some of the sport’s biggest names competing on baseball’s biggest stage.

Freddie Freeman of the Los Angeles Dodgers poses for a photo with his family after defeating the New York Mets in Game 6 of the NLCS presented by CreditDepot at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on October 20, 2024.

Rob Leiter/MLB Photos via Getty Images

Despite sharing the field with the likes of Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani, it’s Freddy Freeman, a star in his own right, who is heavily favored to win the World Series MVP should the Dodgers win the series.

“So you couldn’t even write that,” Chelsea Freeman said. “Given what we’ve been through this year. I mean, it would be a complete 360. Honestly, there’s no need for words; winning the World Series and doing it with the Dodgers would be absolutely incredible.”

Chelsea Freeman said everything the family has been through will make this World Series win even more special.

“We’ve done this once before, but Freddie is from California, so to do it in front of his family and this fan base and this organization that’s been with us and supporting us all year long would be absolutely, absolutely incredible.” To do it with the Dodgers and get the ring.”