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.

Freddie Freeman hit a game-winning, walk-off grand slam with two out in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Los Angeles Dodgers a 6-3 win over the

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.