With Mookie Betts on second base in the bottom of the eighth inning on Saturday night at Dodger Stadium against the Kansas City Royals, Freddie Freeman drove a run-scoring single to center field, giving the Los Angeles Dodgers a 4-3 lead.
Alex Vesia shut down the Royals in the top of the ninth and the Dodgers secured a series-opening win.
Freeman has felt like he has underperformed over the past two months with a .286 average and .842 on-base-plus-slugging percentage through the end of May. However, he has turned things around and is living up to his extremely high standards in June, batting .