LOS ANGELES -- Freddie Freeman returned to the Los Angeles Dodgers' lineup on Monday night after missing eight games to be with his ailing 3-year-old son who is out of danger after a serious medical diagnosis.
"I'm back," he said, "so that means good things are happening at the Freeman home."
After an initial diagnosis proved incorrect, Maximus Freeman was found to have Guillain-Barre syndrome, something Freeman and his wife, Chelsea, had never heard of. The rare neurological disorder occurs when the body's immune system attacks the peripheral nervous system and causes nerve damage and muscle weakness.