{"id":720023,"date":"2026-06-07T00:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/720023\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T00:36:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T00:36:21","slug":"dodgers-history-of-walk-off-home-runs-to-win-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/720023\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers history of walk-off home runs to win 1-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It was Freeman\u2019s fifth walk-off hit with the Dodgers in the regular season, and his first home run. But you might remember that the first baseman has also authored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truebluela.com\/2024\/10\/25\/24279841\/freddie-freeman-grand-slam-dodgers-world-series-game-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two of the most famous World Series<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truebluela.com\/dodgers-scores-standings\/106643\/dodgers-freddie-freeman-home-run-will-klein-world-series\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">walk-off home runs in history<\/a> as well. All told, Freeman has 20 career walk-off hits in the regular season and postseason, putting him in very rare company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Baseball Reference has full play-by-play data dating back to 1910, and in the 117 seasons in the database <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/stathead\/sharing\/wvfqy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Dodgers have hit 224 walk-off home runs<\/a>, a tad under two per year on average. Since moving to Los Angeles, they\u2019ve averaged about 2.4 walk-off homers per regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Only once did the Brooklyn Dodgers hit a walk-off home run in a 0-0 game. On May 2, 1955 at Ebbets Field, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/boxes\/BRO\/BRO195505020.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carl Furillo took Gene Conley of the Milwaukee Braves deep in the 12th inning<\/a>, but that was a two-run shot that also scored Jackie Robinson. Conley started that game for Milwaukee and went the whole way, as did winning pitcher Carl Erskine with his 12 scoreless frames. Furillo pushed Brooklyn\u2019s record to 16-2, on their way to a 22-2 start and a runaway pennant on their way to the franchise\u2019s first World Series championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Freeman\u2019s 1-0 walk-off winner was the first by the team since Yasmani Grandal did in the Arizona Diamondbacks on May 3, 2015 in the 13th inning, the latest in the game any of these home runs were hit. The Russell Martin home run on August 13, 2006 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/boxes\/LAN\/LAN200608130.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">finished off a classic 10-inning tilt on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball<\/a> featuring Greg Maddux needing only 68 pitches in his eight scoreless innings in a duel with future Dodger Jason Schmidt when he still had intact shoulder ligaments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Five of these nine 1-0 home runs came in extra innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Dodgers\u2019 last two games have been decided on walk-off home runs, with a loss on Thursday before Friday\u2019s win. Los Angeles still has not played an extra-inning game this season, the only MLB team in 2026 who has yet to play beyond nine innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was Freeman\u2019s fifth walk-off hit with the Dodgers in the regular season, and his first home run.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,260406,462,82],"class_list":["post-720023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dodgers-history-records","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720023","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=720023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}