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MLB playoffs 2023: How Lovullo and Hazen's bond has endured

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PHOENIX -- NICOLE HAZEN just wanted it to feel like Christmas. It was the winter of 2020, six months after she had suffered a seizure that uncovered a cancerous brain tumor, and Nicole was seeking reminders of her festive childhood holidays in the Cleveland suburbs. Her husband, Mike, had always refused to climb atop their roof to install lights. But this time he offered a compromise. "We'll pay somebody," Mike, the Arizona Diamondbacks' general manager, told her. Nicole had a better idea:

Torey Lovullo would do it for free.