Freddie Freeman hits a home run in his sixth consecutive World Series game

Whatever the outcome of the 2024 World Series, Freddie Freeman's performance will be remembered for a while.

The Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman made history in Game 4 on Tuesday with a two-run home run off New York Yankees rookie Luis Gil that gave the Dodgers a 2-0 lead in the first inning of an elimination game for New York. At 343 feet, it wasn't the longest home run, but Yankee Stadium will help a lot of left-handed power bats.

The story that Freeman wrote is twofold. He is the first player to ever hit a home run in the first four games of a World Series, having previously tied the record with Barry Bonds and Hank Bauer with three hits. He also has now scored in six straight World Series games after going deep in the final two games of the Atlanta Braves' 2021 victory.

Freeman has been one of the top hitters in the MLB for years, but in this Classic he has reached a new level. He also started this series without any trouble, as he sprained his right ankle late in the regular season and was significantly limited in the first two rounds of the postseason.

Freeman hasn't hit a single extra-base hit in either the NLDS or NLCS, and he's missed a few games to help his ankle heal, but he now has four home runs and a triple in games played on are most important. The most memorable of those home runs, of course, was his walk-off grand slam in Game 1, the first of its kind in World Series history.