How Dodgers' Mookie Betts got his postseason groove back

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LOS ANGELES -- Mookie Betts spent part of his 32nd birthday practically locked inside Petco Park's batting cage. It was Monday afternoon in San Diego, an off day from an impassioned National League Division Series and an opportunity for its participants to separate from it. Betts took the opposite approach. He swung and swung and swung, outside and indoors, against soft tosses and high velocity.

Two nights later, after a series-tying Game 4 victory, relief filled the Los Angeles Dodgers' clubhouse. Their season, volatile as it might be, had been saved. And Betts had been a catalyst, homering in a second consecutive game and following with a run-scoring…