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PHILADELPHIA -- One of these days -- and it better happen soon, now that the Los Angeles Dodgers are one loss away from being National League Championship Series landfill -- it would be nice if Manny started being Manny.
Not the Manny Ramirez who has exactly one home run in 29 at-bats this postseason and only two RBIs in 16 at-bats against NLCS opponent Philadelphia Phillies. Not the Manny who might have been outsprinted to Shane Victorino's sixth-inning "triple" in the left-field corner by 81-year-old Vin Scully (followed moments later by Ramirez's halfhearted lob to third). Not the Manny who has been a factor, but not the factor for a Dodgers team at the very brink of elimination.
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