Freddie Freeman of Dodgers day by day after having slipped into the shower

The story, said Freddie Freeman, began with a water leak.

Freeman said that there was recently a water leak in the main bathroom of the Southland house in his family who knocked out a normal out -of -service shower. So when the first dodgers base player started his morning on Sunday, at the start of the day in the team’s regular season calendar, he used one of the other bathrooms to take a shower.

This is when the calamity struck.

While trying to enter the double bathtub, Freeman’s right foot slipped. The 6 -foot 4 inch set went crazy in the bathtub. And the right ankle that he had surgically repaired this offseason, after playing through a severe sprain in the playoffs last year, had been aggravated.

“A bizarre accident,” said Freeman with a jolt on Tuesday. “I can’t really invent.”

Just as Freeman was finally starting to go beyond the ankle and coast injuries which rekindled it last October before linger this spring, his shower sheet brought it out of the alignment this week. He did not play on Monday in the opening of the Dodgers series against his former team, the brave of Atlanta. He was not in the starting training Tuesday, with only slim chances of being available on the bench.

The good news: Freeman said that his ankle, who swelled following his accident, already feels better. Before the match on Tuesday, he was able to go through a normal session of implementation of the exercises and shot practices. His hope is that he will return to action on Wednesday or Friday, depending on the speed with which he progresses before the team flies to Philadelphia on Thursday’s day off.

“It’s frustrating, because I felt really good,” said Freeman, who missed the two games of the Dodgers of the season in Tokyo because of the discomfort in his coast, and spent the spring carefully treating his full -health ankle.

“You slip all the time in baths,” he added. “When you are in good health, you just catch yourself. And when you are not, when you have a small ankle repaired surgically, I think I think everything has flared everything that is saving.”

Freeman obtained a clean x -ray on his ankle after Sunday fall. His wife, Chelsea, also led him to the stadium this afternoon for three hours of treatment, after which, noted Freeman, his ankle had already improved to the point that he could recover at the wheel.

If all of this was not enough, Freeman said he had also fought a cold last week, not completely frightening until the end of the Tigers series last weekend – when he had a home run and a double in the final on Saturday.

“Kicks the disease,” he joked, “then kicked the bathtub.”

Fortunately, he noted, this should not lead to an extended absence of the programming.

“The plan is that, if everything goes well, I will come back tomorrow,” he said. “With the day off on Thursday, they push me to play on Friday. But I’m going to do everything I can get out tomorrow.”

Incoming torpedoes

Dodgers’ players and coaches were just as surprised as the rest of the world of baseball by learning the “torpedo” bats in the form of a bowling alley that some New York Yankees players used last weekend, when they crushed 15 home circuits in a three-game Milwaukee Brewers scan.

But on Monday, the plot in the new design of bats was raised among the team, several players noting that they already had orders for their own torpedo bats on the way.

“I mean, it sounds interesting,” said co-fraped coach Robert Van Scoyoc. “I think guys will try it. I mean, how not to do it, right? You see these kinds of results, of course. ”

The third goal player Max Muncy is one of the Dodgers strikers who plans to experiment with the new design – in which the most fatty part of the barrel is close to the handle to increase the quality of contact on the swings which would have previously blocked a striker.

He said he had come in a night expedition and was delighted to see what he hoped could be a rare “major innovation” in the design of bats.

“For me, it’s exciting just because there was not much of that,” said Muncy, noting that outside of wood types and variations in manipulation, bats have largely unchanged on the history of sport.

“They had 100 different bat models (already), in this way, in shape this way,” he added. “But nothing has ever been as drastic as it is.”

Muncy nevertheless had questions about the Torpille bats, who were designed by a former physics teacher educated by the MIT who worked for the Yankees in recent seasons.

In his own swing, noted Muncy, he usually strikes the ball closer to the end of the bat; A place where, on the design of the torpedo, the barrel shrinks.

“It could actually be a prejudice to me,” he laughed.

However, he noted that the simple idea of ​​a potentially major technological breakthrough for strikers was the welcome of the news, especially given the progress that launchers have made in the last decade using technology and biometrics to learn to launch stronger.

“If it’s something that really works, I think it’s exciting for the baseball game, for the offensive side,” he said. “I’m just intrigued by all this.”