Freddie Freeman was equipped with a towel as he walked into a Dodger Stadium interview room Monday afternoon. An emotional sort in the best of times, the veteran first baseman knew he wouldn’t get a minute into a recounting of the brutal ordeal his 3-year-old son, Maximus, went through over the past 10 days without crying.
He was right … and he didn’t care. The tears flowed, and so did the gratitude of an eight-time All-Star who returned to the team on Monday, his son home from the hospital and on a long but hopeful road of recovery from Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare neurological condition in which the body’s immune system attacks the nerves.