The Freeze gets off to an ice-cold start in his season opener

Tom Gatto

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The Freeze gets off to an ice-cold start in his season opener image

The Freeze got iced in his 2018 debut.

Freeze (Nigel Talton in real life) finished well behind the spectator who was chosen to race him between innings Friday during the Mets-Braves game at Atlanta's SunTrust Park.

Freeze became an internet celebrity last year for being able to spot people two to three seconds and still run past them.

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Maybe there was some rust after a long offseason, or maybe the Braves decided to find an athletic fan who could give Freeze a good run (pun alert). Either way, it's an 0-1 start in 2018 for Freeze/Talton.

Tom Gatto

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.