Hits the ball to right field, she is gone!

Okay.

To power the Los Angeles Dodgers to an eighth World Series title.

A million fans showed up to cheer him on Saturday.

Please give a big L.A. welcome to the most valuable player, Freddie Freeman.

Wow.

Wow.

What an unbelievable performance that was.

I appreciate that, thank you.

Is this something you imagined as a boy?

Yeah, I mean, you always dream about wanting to be in the World Series and ultimately winning one, but to do it from a place where you're from in Southern California, I think that made it a little bit special.

Yeah, yeah.

And to do it in such, I mean, it's like, it's like that description that you'd have, you know, you'd be playing wiffle ball and you'd go like, okay, it's the 10th inning, it's extra innings, we're down by a run.

And I have to say, I was at game one and I watched what you did, which was incredible.

And I want to ask you a couple of things, because I was kind of imagining what was going through your brain at that time.

So they intentionally walk Mookie Betts to get to you.

They put him on first, the bases are now loaded.

And I turned to my buddy, I said,

Cleto, I said, oh, Freddie's mad.

They intentionally walked Mookie.

He's mad, this is going to be good.

Were you annoyed?

I'm not annoyed because, I mean, if you follow baseball, once you saw them get second and third on the show, he's foul out.

I kind of knew, just left on left, that's kind of the matchup.

But I was replaying everything I was, my process that I was going to go with in that moment.

So I wasn't really thinking about Mookie getting walked,

I was just going over my plan in that moment.

You had a plan going into the at-bat.

Yes.

We'll tell you another thing, our other pal,

Jimmy is sitting next to me, he goes, he's going, please don't swing at the first pitch.

Please don't swing at the first pitch.

I'm glad he was wrong.

I'm glad you didn't listen.

OK, so you want to know my thought process on that?

Yeah.

OK, so I had watched, actually, at-bats against Shohei,

Shohei against Nestor.

Because usually when Shohei walks into the box, your back's against the wall.

It's most likely going to be a home run when he comes into the box.

So I wanted to see how he pitched to Shohei.

And a lot of cutters and sliders away.

So I was like, you know what, I'm just going to move my sights closer to me and try and be on the fastball.

Because if I'm on the fastball, on the inside part of the plate,

I won't be able to hit it.

I won't swing at the cutters or sliders away.

And he threw it right where I was looking.

He sure did.

Is this?

But the thing is, you've got to hit them, too.

That's the hard part.

Like, you can be looking in certain spots, but sometimes you miss the mistakes you get.

Yeah, I would miss every single time.

I'm glad I didn't miss that moment.

Have you spoken to Nestor?

Did you ever?

No, we haven't.

You haven't had anything?

You say thanks?

I mean, you should send him a little something.

I don't know how to go about that one.

A fruit basket would be nice.

I think that is the appropriate gift.

And then you guys have the big.

What did you guys do to celebrate after the game?

It's going to be a little bit of a letdown.

OK, so obviously we went on the road.

We celebrate like crazy in the clubhouse, doing a lot of fun stuff.

But then we actually had to fly home that night.

So we left Yankee Stadium around 3 AM.

And we flew all the way home.

We landed at like 930 in the morning.

So I'm not going to lie, there was pretty much just sleeping.

Pretty much sleeping.

And at one point, you're on this high.

You just won the World Series.

You're the MVP.

All your childhood dreams have come true.

You get home.

Do you go, oh, now I have to take out the garbage?

I went trick-or-treating the night we flew home.

OK, you did.

Yeah, so I had to get Iron Man set up, the Hulk, and Spider-Man.

Thankfully, my beautiful wife helped a lot.

So yeah, we went straight.

Yeah.

Well, yeah.

It was straight into trick-or-treating.

That was pretty much it.

I actually met your family after the game.

That's what I heard.

They were very, very excited.

I couldn't wait.

I mean, I was excited for their excitement, really.

So OK, so you went trick-or-treating.

Do you see any little Freddys?

Yeah, we saw a couple.

Yeah?

A lot of show haze.

Did they notice you?

Did the Freddys notice you?

Yeah, I took one picture with a Freddy.

OK, all right.

That must have been crazy.

It is cool.

You don't ever think about that as a kid and growing up that you're going to have people dressing up as you.

No, yeah, yeah.

It's kind of surreal.

And thankfully that I was able to do something to make people happy.

That's all I'm told about.

Yeah, you did make people really, not in New York.

You made them very unhappy.

In New York, the people were displeased.

Yeah, I heard it.

Believe me, I heard it when I was there.

I'm sure you did.

Although I have to say, I do want to mention this.

One of the Yankees fans, this is pretty great, had a sign, I don't know if you saw this during the game,

Freddy, please stop.

Yeah.

Which is.

I think, and I think I hit a home run in this game.

Because I didn't stop.

Yeah, no, you didn't stop at all.

But it was nice of him to be polite.

We have a.

That might have been the only polite person.

We have a moment with KiKi in the locker room after the game.

Oh my god.

Oh my god.

Why are you still wearing a cuff?

Why are you still wearing a cuff?

OK, no, no.

Now, why did he know you were still wearing a cuff?

I think that we all know KiKi now.

He's not a hugger up top.

He's a hugger from here and pull you in kind of guy.

I see.

I see.

He's a butt hugger, what you'd call him.

He's going to feel everything that you have.

That's KiKi.

Besides the story being great on its own, it's so great because of what you guys went through this season, and the love from the Dodgers fans was really incredible.

Not just during the World Series, but throughout the whole season.

Yeah, it's special.

I think everybody that kind of knows, my family and I went through a lot with our son, Maximus, getting Guillain-Barre in late July.

And when I came back, that first game was one of the most special things I've ever been a part of, standing ovation by 53,000 people when I first came back.

And I tried to reciprocate that love that moment, but sometimes it takes a couple of months.

And three months later, I was thankfully able to put on a World Series to remember.

Yeah, there you go.

You know, there's different ways you can show love.

And I tried to show it then, and I'm glad I was able to show it with performance as well.

You not only do you have the bad ankle, which we could all see you limping, but you also had a rib injury of some kind.

Yeah, so I had a costal cartilage defect of my sixth rib, which is essentially a broken rib.

That actually happened the night before NLDS game one against the Padres.

So I was hitting in the cage, and I dropped to the ground, and I needed help out of the cage.

So I went to the MRI at 2.

I was in an MRI tube at 11.30 that night.

And luckily, the results came back.

I thought I had blown my oblique out and whatnot.

But it came back, and I was like, well,

I think I can play through that, right, with some help?

Yeah, well, yeah.

So I wasn't really able to walk in that morning, and we did a lot of treatment.

And that's, you know how it was kind of like game time decision every single day?

It was mostly because of my rib, not my ankle.

So.

Interesting.

Yeah, the ankle obviously wasn't very good either.

Have you heard from Kirk Gibson?

Because I think a lot of people, he reached out.

He actually sent a message through one of the executives of the Dodgers saying congratulations.

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

I actually got to meet him earlier this year.

So very nice guy.

He does the Tigers stuff, so I get to see him a lot.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, yeah, you know he's got to share that spotlight with you.

No, I think we're OK sharing it.

That's World Series wins.

So we're OK.

12 RBIs is the, you tied the record, held by a member of the Yankees.

Bobby Richardson in 1960.

And he lost.

And he lost.

And he did it, that was a seven game series.

You did it in five games.

So really, you are the record holder.

You're in the behind the scenes.

I appreciate that.

Mookie was here.

He told us that the dance that you guys do when you get a hit is something that you came up with, courtesy of a bottle of wine, actually, he said.

I'm sure it was, yeah.

Yeah.

Would you show us just a little of that?

I mean, yeah.

You have the ribs.

I mean, you can at least see if he's right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a lot better with a bottle of wine, I promise.

You know you're going to have to do that at every wedding you go to for the whole rest of your life.

Maybe do it on the stage in front of 53,000 people.

It's a lot easier when you hit a double or something like that.

When you're prompted to do it, it's a little bit awkward.

It's a little awkward.

Well, think of it as, this was really like a double, I think.

So, well, it's great to have you here.

Thank you so much for coming.

I know you're probably exhausted in every way.

Can you tell a little bit?

I'm sure you are.

You have to be.

I mean, you're being human not to be.

But congrats.

It was so much fun, and especially when we needed it.

I appreciate that.

Thank you.

Freddie Freeman, everybody.

We need the trophy.

Oh my god.

Oh, I forgot this.

Oh, yeah.

I got you.

I got you a present.

Oh my god.

We'll be right back with Allison Janney.