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Bill Plaschke: To reach their blue heaven, Dodgers will need heightened focus, resolve

LOS ANGELES - Four more wins.

Enrique Hernandez spent the weekend watching his phone melt, inundated with hundreds of messages celebrating the three home runs he hit that sent the Los Angeles Dodgers to the World Series.

He would now like to respond with a group text:

"We can't still be sitting here and thinking like, 'Oh my gosh, I had a really cool playoff game,' " Hernandez said. "It's time to get ready for the Astros, and losing is not an option."

Four more wins.

Charlie Culberson's wife, Sarah, stood in a blocks-long line at the Dodgers' merchandise store Saturday to buy a blue Dodgers hair bow for their 5-year-old daughter, Collins.

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