An improbable year. An impossible situation. An injured player on one leg. An immortal walk-off World Series homer. It all feels surreal–like deja vu on the grandest of scales. Did Freddie Freeman really just channel Kirk Gibson,

After the game, Freeman was asked about the walk-off grand slam and hitting it while hobbled like Gibson in 1988. "I played the whole game though," he joked. Gibson pinch-hit in Game 1 in 1988 and did not play again the rest of the series. The walk-off home run was the final postseason at-bat of his career.

The Dodger first baseman, also playing hurt, awakens echoes of Kirk Gibson’s iconic 1988 blast with his 10th-inning, walk-off grand slam to beat the Yankees in Game 1.