By Chad Jennings, Stephen J. Nesbitt and C. Trent Rosecrans
No major-league ballpark holds more fans than Dodger Stadium. Its 56,000 seats blend high-wattage celebrities with anonymous diehards to create one of baseball’s loudest, most intense atmospheres. It’s intimidating. Especially in October.
Just not for Jurickson Profar.
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Home crowds always have their say in the playoffs, and after a wild-card round in which home teams generally struggled, the postseason intensity finally bubbled over in good ways and bad on Sunday.
In Los Angeles, Profar robbed a home run and taunted the Dodgers faithful, hopping up and down in left field before revealing the ball secure in his glove. The San Diego Padres were
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