{"id":232040,"date":"2025-10-22T14:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/232040\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:11:10","slug":"dodgers-star-freeman-expects-cold-shoulder-from-fellow-canadians-at-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/232040\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers star Freeman expects cold shoulder from fellow Canadians at World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/freddie-freeman\/1668\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/freddie-freeman\/1668\" target=\"_blank\">Freddie Freeman<\/a> is always happy to return to Toronto, even if Blue Jays fans might not give him a warm reception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Freeman is a dual Canadian-American citizen who has represented Canada in the World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">However, he&#8217;s also one of the stars of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/234\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/los-angeles-dodgers\/234\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>, the Blue Jays&#8217; opponents in the World Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto&#8217;s Rogers Centre will host Games 1 and 2 of the World Series on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Freeman&#8217;s father is from Windsor, Ont., and his late mother was from Peterborough, Ont., but he was raised in Southern California after his parents moved to the United States for work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The nine-time all-star hit .295 for L.A. this past season with 24 home runs and 90 runs batted in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 22, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freddie Freeman is always happy to return to Toronto, even if Blue Jays fans might not give him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-232040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}