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As Freddie Freeman rested his fractured finger, he got an unexpected ‘mental’ reset too

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PHOENIX —

Freddie Freeman’s right middle finger is still fractured.

But after sitting out three games this week, the Dodgers first baseman is feeling refreshed — physically, and maybe even more importantly, mentally as well.

“I think we would say it was a finger break,” said Freeman, who returned to the Dodgers’ lineup for Friday’s series opener against the Arizona Diamondbacks after missing all three games against the Baltimore Orioles earlier this week. “But I took the last three days to just shut the brain off and not really worry too much about things.