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Dodgers: Freddie Freeman Looks Forward to Playing Alongside Deafening Dodgers Crowd

The Dodgers clinched home-field advantage through the NLCS with a win on Sunday against the Cardinals

Ryan Menzie

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The playoffs are the most gut wrenching times in all of sports as superstars become legends or see there illustrious careers derailed with the narrative of never being able to win it all. Any upper advantage you can get to achieve your ultimate goal you take and luckily for Freddie Freeman and the Dodgers they officially clinched home-field advantage through the NLCS.

All that matters in the game of baseball is the ability to perform when it matters most. The Dodgers are poised for a deep postseason run but all can change in the blink of an eye if not taken seriously. 

The Dodgers have had many new advantages from clinching a playoff berth earlier than any team and than clinching a first round bye, but nothing seems more important than clinching home field advantage. Freeman has been on the opposite end playing at Dodgers Stadium and remembers the deafening experience provided by the crowd off a Juan Uribe home run in 2013. 

Now instead of the loud boos and screams directed at Freeman, he will get to enjoy the proud chants of Freddie each time he walks up to the bat in preparation for a big play. Playing at home comes with its pressures if performing your best in front of the fans, but Freeman will take those chances any day of the week (quotes via SportsNet LA).

"It's pretty important, when you got four decks here and 50 something thousand people everyday, thats pretty important. I know how it is coming here in the on the road in the playoffs. It's pretty important and pretty special for us."

Freeman has made his presence known all season long for the record breaking team and look to cruise into the postseason. With the expected LA faithful ready to come out for the team when it matters most, there will be plenty of spectacle to see with fans doing whatever they can to get into the opposing teams heads. 

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RYAN MENZIE

Ryan Menzie | Lead Contributor Ryan is an LA Native who has grown up praising the greatest athletes LA has had to offer. A love for sports ranging between basketball, football, volleyball and golf, a future Sports Management Masters graduate, and being engulfed into organized sports since seven years old, the passion and love for sports never ends for Ryan. If the words he writes don't paint the full picture of his true fandom, he will find more ways than one to tell the story and be more than willing to open up a nice LA sports debate with you. Favorite Player: Mookie Betts Favorite Moment: 2020 World Series. The Lakers won the NBA title and the Dodgers secured the World Series only a couple of months later. During such a rough time with COVID-19 and such a bleak look at how sports has tried to overcome the circumstances, it was a relief to see the night sky lit up for many nights and a makeshift parade in LA when it seemed like we needed it the most.

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