ATLANTA — There were no tears.
There were no tears when he addressed the crowd in a Fox interview that was played over the Truist Park sound system.
There were no tears when manager Dave Roberts removed him from the game in the top of third inning so the fans could salute him once final time.
“I didn’t know how it was going to go,” Freeman said.
This was the kind of setting that could have very easily turned the emotional Freeman into a sobbing mess, and he admitted as much the previous day.