For the first time in weeks, Freddie Freeman felt no pain last Friday night.
The Champagne and beer that’d been showered on him and his teammates in the wake of a Game 5 win in the National League Division Series might have helped. The pain-numbing medication he took pregame (all doctor-approved, as he makes sure to note) probably didn’t hurt, either.
But for Freeman, it was a concoction of adrenaline, relief and gratitude that — at least for a little while — mostly numbed the pain in his badly sprained right ankle.