Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman returns to lineup, admits he needed time off

LOS ANGELES — The man who never wants to come out of the lineup, who gutted his way through last October’s playoffs and World Series with a severely sprained right ankle and torn rib cartilage, who was proud of the fact he had not been on the injured list in eight years, gave what amounted to a concession speech on Friday.
“I hate to admit it,” Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman said with an impish grin upon being activated from the IL before the series opener against