As Freddie Freeman walked off the field following a round of batting practice during a Saturday off-day before Game 6 of the National League Championship Series, he and Dave Roberts had yet to discuss his status for Sunday’s potentially pennant-clinching game.
The dejected look on Freeman’s face, however, said enough.
As Roberts had hinted this week, Freeman was not in the starting lineup for Sunday’s Game 6, held out after recording just one hit in his previous 15 at-bats while battling a limiting sprained ankle.
“I’m not gonna compromise his health, or certainly winning a game tomorrow, if he’s not mentally and/or physically ready to go,” Roberts said during his off-day press conference.
Evidently, Freeman wasn’t.
“Just doesn’t feel like himself,” Roberts said before Sunday’s game. “So we just felt that potentially another day would help.”
The lineup news didn’t come as much of a surprise. Despite missing just two of the Dodgers’ first 10 games in these playoffs, while battling an …