Pack your passports, friends — the Dodgers are headed to Toronto. For all their star power and skill, though, it didn’t always look like the Dodgers were going to punch those tickets. The regular season was a bit of a roller coaster, and it’s a relief that the postseason so far has been smooth sailing in comparison.

Manager Dave Roberts called a team meeting in early September that might have helped make that transition. Roberts doesn’t often organize such get togethers, according to Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic, so players must have known something was up.

And the message was surprising: Stop trying to be perfect.

“Just giving everyone permission to let go of the prior, call it, five months of the year, the inconsistencies of play,” Roberts said. “Offloading all that stuff, myself inc

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