Kirk Gibson turned on his phone to watch the Dodgers in Game 1 of the World Series just in time to see Freddie Freeman emulate his 1988 walk-off home run.
Gibson knew Freeman would be the hero of the game as the first baseman stepped in the batter’s box in the bottom of the tenth inning. Freeman was banged up like Gibson was over thirty years ago, and as history repeated itself, the Dodgers icon witnessed the birth of a new legend.
“I just thought, ‘This is going to happen,’” Gibson told Dodgers’ Cary Osborne.