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NEW YORK -- Freddie Freeman took his newborn son and wife home from a hospital, stayed up through most of the night and headed from Atlanta to New York.This is what adrenaline can do: He had four hits, including a home run, and three RBIs to help the last-place Braves to a 7-3 win against the contending Mets on Monday night.My flight was at 11:30, but that doesnt mean I got any sleep last night because my son was screaming his head off, Freeman said. He found out what his lungs can do last night.Freeman was seen on television rushing from the dugout to the clubhouse during the seventh inning of Wednesdays game against Miami at Turner Field when he received a message that his wife had gone into labor.Frederick Charles Freeman II was born Thursday.Freemans wife, the model known as Chelsea Goff before their wedding, posted a photo of herself with her newborn son and husband on Instagram, saying the baby is healthy and perfect.Freeman was given Friday off by the Braves to spend time with his wife and son, called Charlie by his parents. He played Saturday and Sunday, waiting through two rain delays as the Braves beat Washington 6-2 in the series finale. Freeman stayed behind rather than travel with the team to New York and brought his family home from the hospital. He got at most two hours sleep and took over baby duty when the nurse left at 8 a.m.I wanted to do that because Im not going to be able to see him for six days, he said. I got some quality time in before I left.Freeman arrived in time for Monday nights game at Citi Field.Youre going to love baseball so much more now with another distraction, a boy and a family, Braves manager Brian Snitker recalled telling him. Maybe come on the road and get some rest.Freeman hit an opposite-field home run to left off Noah Syndergaard in the third inning for a 3-0 lead, added a two-run, opposite-field double in the fourth, then singled in the seventh and eighth.Chelsea tweeted a picture of Charlie being held in front of a television screen showing the game.Freeman has a 23-game hitting streak and has reached base in 39 consecutive games. With nearly two weeks left in the season, the two-time All-Star has hit a career-high 31 home runs and is batting .302 with 83 RBIs.Hopefully, I have some other cool games I can tell him about, too, Freeman said.The Associated Press contributed to this report. Custom Los Angeles Lakers Jerseys . 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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Lakers Jersey . World champions Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov of Russia won the gold medal with 237.71 points, Moore-Towers and Moscovitch followed at 208.45 and Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov of Russia were third at 187. Chris Wood reckons that Europes vice captains will kick the life into anybody on the Ryder Cup team who isnt on top of his game before the first shot is hit on Friday.But the BMW Championship winner is not worried. He has been so excited about playing in the competition that he has been watching highlights of the dramatic 2012 Medinah edition in bed at night.Woods focus has been pretty impressive too. When he talked to ESPN, he had forgotten that the last time he played at Hazeltine -- at the 2009 PGA Championship -- he had a brush with the law on the way.It was probably the first time I traveled to the States on my own, he said. I had quite messy hair, backpack on and had just got off a 10-hour flight. The sheriff decided to pull me in and sit me in a room for two hours.You cant blame them [the police], because they are only trying to keep everybody safe, but for a 21-year-old lad, it was quite intimidating.Im sure it will be slightly quicker to get through this time and I wont be standing with 300 people, Wood added. I wont be in my flip-flops and with long hair. Hopefully, they can sneak us round the back and into a car.The European team arrived at Minneapolis airport early afternoon local time on Monday, and Wood was one of six Ryder Cup rookies among them.For some, having so many players lacking experience of the competitions unique atmosphere has been seen as a disadvantage; by contrast, the Team USA roster had just two competition rookies -- Brooks Koepka and captain Davis Love IIIs final wild-card pick Ryan Moore.The enthusiasm of players such as Wood, however, is hard to knock.Even if youre not feeling ready for the Ryder Cup, I think the whole experience will lift you, he said.Captain Darren Clarke and the vice captains -- particularly Ian Poulter -- I would have thought would kick the life into you if anybody waasnt quite on their game, but I dont think Ill be in that position.ddddddddddddTo say Im excited about it is an understatement, Wood continued. Weve all seen it, and Ive been watching the Medinah highlights on my iPad just before I go to sleep. For me, that is the one to watch: It was so amazing and inspirational. To know that Im going to be a part of that ...The whole team environment, I absolutely love, and to feel part of that for an entire week, as an individual sportsman, is unique. I cannot wait.The mental side of the contest at Hazeltine will be important, from the way players handle the crowd and media to the way they relate to their teammates and respond to their rivals.Wood has been using a performance coach for several years now and has a specific session planned to get him thinking as a team player, rather than the individual he has to be on the golf course the rest of the year.He has also talked to Clarke and vice captain Thomas Bjorn, and he has been eagerly anticipating spending more time with the European teams senior people.It will be like being a sponge for me, listening to everything, Wood said. Im really excited to hear what Poulter has to say in the team room. We all know what hes done in the Ryder Cup, and for a rookie, if you want to know how to handle it, perform and feel that passion, hes the man.Even if I just get two or three things, it will have been worth it, Wood added. Sitting and chatting to one or two players and vice captains is probably going to be more valuable than hitting balls on the range for an hour.Psychology is not for everyone, but the mental side has always been a strength of my game. If you do the basics well, you dont need an awful lot of coaching. ' ' '