{"id":568073,"date":"2026-03-29T06:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568073\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T06:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:06:12","slug":"dodgers-freeman-laughs-off-being-tagged-out-by-marte-with-hug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568073\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers’ Freeman laughs off being tagged out by Marte with hug"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES — Dodgers<\/a> slugger Freddie Freeman<\/a> finally got his first hit of the season after starting 0-for-8. His time on the basepaths was short and ended in a hug.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t think I’d ever be a part of a hug out on a baseball field,” a smiling Freeman said.<\/p>\n

Freeman singled off Arizona’s Eduardo Rodriguez<\/a> in the second inning Saturday night. Two outs later, Santiago Espinal<\/a> grounded out to second base.<\/p>\n

Ketel Marte<\/a> fielded the ball nearly halfway between first and second, and he blocked Freeman’s path while putting his arms out.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman snapped an 0-for-8 skid to start the season with a second-inning single, but minutes later was tagged out with a hug by Arizona’s Ketel Marte.\u00a0Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

With nowhere to run, Freeman walked toward a smiling Marte, who tagged him out with a hug to end the inning.<\/p>\n

“I stopped and I was like, is there any way around this? If I go out of the baseline, I’m out. If I run back, he’ll just run to second,” Freeman said. “He gave me a little, ‘Come here,’ and I was like, ‘All right, let’s just do it.'”<\/p>\n

Freeman is known to wear his emotions on his sleeve, and he has greeted opposing players who arrive at first base with hugs in the past.<\/p>\n

“I’m very much a hugger,” he said. “Emotional man over here.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES — Dodgers slugger Freddie Freeman finally got his first hit of the season after starting 0-for-8.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-568073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568073","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=568073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}