Freddie Freeman was not with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday night, and may not be for the near future after he had an incident in his shower at home in recent days.
The first baseman slipped in his shower and hurt his right ankle this past weekend, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts revealed on Monday. The ankle is the same one that Freeman had minor surgery on in December after the team's World Series run, too.
“He had a little mishap entering the shower,” Roberts said, via The Associated Press. “Kind of swelled up a bit.