Atlanta Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman believes his wife's coffee selection had a major role to play in his historic performance against the Miami Marlins on Wednesday.
"My wife, we had breakfast this morning and we had two cappuccinos delivered - and she chose the cappuccino and she handed it to me and said this is the one with a lot of hits in it," Freeman said postgame, according to ESPN. "So I have to give this one up to my wife, Chelsea, because if it wasn't for the right cappuccino pick, I wouldn't be here talking to you guys."
Freeman, who hit for the cycle for the second time in his career, became the second player in team history to accomplish the feat twice.
The reigning NL MVP doubled in the first inning, tripled in the fourth, singled in the fifth, and went deep in the sixth.
𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐅 𝐀 𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐃𝐈𝐄 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐍 pic.twitter.com/VppfoT5q8n
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Freeman first hit for the cycle in June 2016. The 31-year-old is the third player to collect one this season.
