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LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 The NL Championship Series trophy sat on a small table in the center of the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> clubhouse with a small sign attached reading \u2018Team Effort.\u2019<\/p>\n

If Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers have their way, it’ll soon be replaced by the Commissioner’s Trophy, signifying a second straight World Series championship<\/a>, a feat last accomplished by the New York Yankees 25 years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think everybody is locked and loaded and ready to see some history,\u201d shortstop Mookie Betts said. \u201cWe\u2019re ready to make it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a city where image is everything, the Dodgers are thinking dynasty.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t really a good opportunity when we were looking at that three months ago,\u201d infielder Miguel Rojas said, thinking back to the Dodgers’ second-half struggles, \u201cbut now it\u2019s like it\u2019s here. We have it in front of us and we\u2019re going to give it everything we have.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Dodgers practiced Monday while Game 7 of the AL Championship Series between Seattle and Toronto played on the empty stadium’s video boards. <\/p>\n

They swept Milwaukee to clinch the NLCS last Friday \u2014 their ninth win in 10 playoff games so far \u2014 leaving six days to rest, work out and think before the World Series begins Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome guys are hitting every day, some guys are re-setting, taking it slow,\u201d Betts said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been together so much throughout the year, so that plays a little part in guys kind of want to enjoy a little family time before we get back rolling again. It’s kind of a balance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ohtani<\/a> walked into the clubhouse in flip flops, three days after earning NLCS MVP with an epic performance in Game 4 that included hitting three home runs and striking out 10.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t want to rain on the parade or anything, but it’s over and done with,\u201d Betts said. \u201cIt has nothing to do with our goal now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Dodgers had bye weeks in the postseason the previous three years, two of which ended in Division Series losses to San Diego and Arizona. Last year, they changed their practice approach in an effort to stay sharp.<\/p>\n

This season, they didn’t earn a bye and won their Wild Card Series against Cincinnati.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year, when we had the bye and the year before we were trying to get through one more month of baseball,\u201d Rojas said. \u201cFor me, it\u2019s really different because all we\u2019re trying to do right here is getting four more wins to win a World Series.”<\/p>\n

Scott is eligible to be on the World Series roster after being dropped during the NLDS because he had an abscess removed from his lower body.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel a lot better now,\u201d the reliever said. \u201cThrew a couple bullpens, see where it takes me.\u201d<\/p>\n

He had a 4.74 ERA in 61 appearances this season and led the majors in blown saves with 10. Fans groaned and booed at times when Scott came trotting out of the bullpen.<\/p>\n

He hasn’t pitched in nearly a month, but he’s unconcerned about any rustiness. <\/p>\n

\u201cPlayoff energy is different,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 The NL Championship Series trophy sat on a small table in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":320839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[160670,347,591,1266,1822,104832,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-320838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-160670","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-baseball","13":"tag-mlb-world-series","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115411507263603994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}