WATCH: Freddie Freeman home run gives Dodgers 3-0 lead vs. Pirates

Kyle Madson

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WATCH: Freddie Freeman home run gives Dodgers 3-0 lead vs. Pirates image

The Dodgers offense woke up early Thursday against the Pirates. Back-to-back singles by Mookie Betts and Shohei Ohtani brought up Freddie Freeman with two on and no outs. Freeman needed just one pitch to give the Dodgers a 3-0 lead.

Pirates starter Bailey Falter dealt a fastball low and in to Freeman and the Dodgers first basemen dropped the bat head on it and smoked a line drive homer to right field. His eighth homer of the year had an exit velocity of 109.7 MPH, although it looked more like 209.7 off the bat. 

Freeman has now hit safely in five consecutive games and has home runs in two of his last four contests. 

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Kyle Madson neither likes writing about himself nor writing in the third person. Nevertheless, he persists. While Kyle has spent most of his writing career covering the NFL’s Tennessee Titans and San Francisco 49ers, he’s never lost the love of baseball that has resided in the deepest recesses of his soul since he began playing T-ball at 4 years old (no matter how hard John Fisher has tried). Aside from writing, Kyle also hosts a radio show, the Insiders, with James Ham on ESPN 1320 in Sacramento. When he’s not being a sports dork, Kyle loves being a normal dork and traveling, visiting museums, diving further into K-Pop fandom (#SKZ) and hanging out with his wife and cats. Don’t follow him on Twitter or Instagram at @KyleAMadson.