Los Angeles Dodgers Showing a Championship Mentality

Three hours before starting a four-game series against the Atlanta Braves on Thursday, Joe Torre brought his team together for a closed-doors meeting.

Torre told reporters. "If I wanted you to be in on this, I would have invited you into it."

This meeting demonstrates the type of leadership that makes Torre a championship manager. The club had lost seven of the last 11 games and had not been producing to their highest capabilities. Whatever Torre said must have recharged the squad in preparation for last night's game.

The Dodgers scrapped all night, fighting from behind and falling just short of tying the game multiple times, most notably when they squandered two runners on base in both the seventh and the eighth innings.

But then came the n...

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