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PHILADELPHIA — A baseball lifetime ago, Jimmy Rollins was sitting in the visitors' clubhouse in St. Louis talking about what his Phillies needed.
This was long before Rollins delivered the two-out, game-winning double Monday night, the extra-base hit that lifted his Phillies to a 5-4 victory over the Dodgers and put them a win away from the opportunity to defend their World Series championship. No, the Jimmy Rollins in the visitors' clubhouse on that sweltering August day in St. Louis had just three playoff games under his belt—all losses, to the Rockies the year before—but a firm grasp of what he considered the essential element to winning in the postseason.
Swag.
Yep, swag. Confidence. A belief in yourself and your teammates. Rollins knew his team had the talent. They needed swag. At that point in their development as a unit, they needed to eliminate the excuses. "When you've got swag, it's 'They got away from us today' or ...
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