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Dodgers rookies late to the party might be key to a World Series celebration

Last Thursday, the Dodgers boarded a flight from San Diego to San Francisco for the regular season's final series like it was Halloween. A baseball ritual historically earmarked for rookie hazing, no one was spared from dressing up. The entire traveling party - players, coaches, trainers, interpreters, broadcasters - participated. The Dodgers ditched tradition. The rookies were not treated any differently.

It is a theme the Dodgers carried throughout their 106-win season. Rookies were welcomed in the clubhouse. Most contributed. Some thrived. Almost all of it was unexpected. The Dodgers

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