The Los Angeles Dodgers drag their butts down the line sometimes, or seek to accelerate through a feet-first slide, or kick the ball around some, or generally play the whole October thing through a smirk not befitting a club three decades without a championship. "It takes a special athlete to have a night like he had last night and to show up the next day in a big spot and want to have the bat in your hand," said Dave Roberts, the Dodgers manager and man in charge of the beautiful and gory.